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April 19, 2023

Chief Agriculture Officer Victoriano Pascual attends climate change workshop in Colombia

By Rubén Morales Iglesias: Acting Chief Agriculture Officer Victoriano Pascual is attending a climate change workshop in Colombia.
April 17, 2023

The Blue Hole is not actually blue, and other things you didn’t know about it

Recently a travel website, The Travel, put together a list of 10 things most don’t know about the Blue Hole.
April 13, 2023

Environmental news: Cabinet approves agreement on fisheries, climate change plans and water management

Cabinet has given its approval for the ratification of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, which will establish new global rules for eliminating harmful [...]
April 4, 2023

Cabinet news: Regulations to be updated for marine pilots; Belize joins major environmental and space conventions

The current Pilotage Regulations will be repealed and replaced with a modern update that would ensure the registration of marine pilots with licensed authority the Belize [...]
March 27, 2023

Social Security Board addresses proposed loan to Hol Chan Marine Reserve for sargassum barriers

As described by Social Security CEO Deborah Ruiz, the purpose of the project is to build barriers to floating sargassum which coats the shoreline and ruins [...]
March 8, 2023

High Seas Treaty: World’s oceans to be protected, but OCEANA Belize says governance mechanism needs work

The High Seas Treaty, agreed Saturday evening at United Nations headquarters in New York City, aims to help place 30 percent of the seas into protected [...]
March 8, 2023

Belize one of five countries targeted for coastal risk assessment

In the case of Belize, the Climate and Ocean Risk Vulnerability Index (CORVI) program will analyze more than 100 different ecological, financial, and social risk factors [...]
February 18, 2023

TIDE’s Celia Mahung receives James A. Waight Award for Conservation

Mahung, a Toledo native, got her start in education but took her commitment to education and empowering youth and women into the environmental field, leading flagship [...]