New Initiative to Develop Conservation Agenda for Belize’s Blue Space

A new initiative to develop what is called “A People-Centric Conservation Agenda for Belize’s Blue Space” has received the blessings of Cabinet. The initiative will be implemented through a program called Resilient Bold Belize, a project for finance permanence for Belize’s marine and coastal areas. This leverages government and private funding and supports large-scale, long-term conservation. The agenda will include a framework consisting of three key commitments for marine and coastal conservation: These include: triple the full protection of the coral reef from seven to twenty percent to identify the most suitable places to increase coral reef protection; secure domestic and international funding against a cost analysis to make Belize’s vast marine protected area system among the best-managed in the world.