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 ...

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).

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 ...

The government of Belize has approved a proposal to protect ... and the endangered Baird’s tapir. There is, however, a lot of work to be done before the Maya Forest Corridor gains official ...

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 ...

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 ...