Peer through the zoo's leafy canopy trees and you may catch sight of Belize's beloved howler monkeys, or at least one tropical parrot, tapir, Jabiru stork or harpy eagle. And on the zoo's rustic ...

as well as the unique riverbank feeding grounds for the Baird's tapir, Belize's national animal, listed as endangered by the International Conservation Union. The greatest fear of Belizean and ...

a few parrots and the long-nosed tapir that is Belize’s national animal. Many of the animals were injured or otherwise unfit for life in the wild, leaving Ms. Matola, as she saw, with little ...

Volunteers lend a hand in the cleanup at the Belize Zoo after Hurricane Richard, Oct 2010; here clearing path to the tapirs, deer, & spider monkeys. Fallen Guanacaste tree in the tapir Indy’s ...

This hereby paves the way and serves as a model for other similar initiatives to follow in Belize.” A Baird’s tapir in the Shipstern Nature Reserve in Belize. Photo courtesy of Corozal ...

On Sept. 21, the Central American nation of Belize will celebrate the 35th anniversary of its independence from Britain. To mark the occasion, the Art Museum of the Americas invited Belizean ...

which abuts the 6,800-acre Tapir Mountain Nature Reserve. (It's a measure of how much jungle there is in Belize that such a seemingly remote place is actually less than 20 miles outside of the ...

I accompany Marin along a trail in the Belize Maya Forest. This is her other bat field site, a protected rainforest, where it's possible to spot tapirs and jaguars. ELMA KAY: Yeah (laughter).

One tapir repeatedly chased another male away from ... which sits near the Mexico-Gautemala-Belize border. The research team included Reyna-Hurtado, Jonathan Huerta-Rodríguez and Edith Rojas ...