PACT Invests $5.23 Million Dollars to Support Eleven Protected Areas

The Protected Areas Conservation Trust is investing close to five and a half million dollars in several protected areas in Belize. PACT will be working with several non-governmental organizations in eleven protected areas for the next year. According to Nayari Perez, the Executive Director at PACT, the investment is part of their transition plan as they phase out their current investment strategy that saw the investment of ten million dollars over the past ten years.

Nayari Perez

Nayari Perez, Executive Director, PACT

“Earlier this month, PACT awarded five point two three million dollars in conservation investments and that is supporting eleven protected areas for the next year. We will be working with several NGO co-managing entities as well as the National Biodiversity office in the Ministry of Sustainable Development and the Association of Protected Areas Organizations in the implementation of projects and programs that seek to maximize revenue generation potential of these protected areas as well as help to increase the management effectiveness of these protected areas. This investment is part of a transition plan that PACT is implementing. We have an outgoing conservation investment strategy that was a medium term conservation investment strategy that saw the investment of ten million dollars over the past three years in the national protected areas system. We are in the process of planning and designing our next medium term conservation investment strategy. So, to bridge that transition from one strategy to the next, we are implementing this five point two three million dollars within the next year.”