If you’ve ever wanted to be licked by a jaguar, cuddle a croc or feed a tapir, Belize’s national animal, or a toucan, its national bird, the Belize Zoo is where you go. You can’t be in ...

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 ...

The annual holiday also serves as a fundraiser for the tapir conservation efforts of the Belize Zoo, the World Land Trust and the Rainforest Trust. Other holidays and observances for April 27 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

World Tapir Day is observed every year on April 27 to raise awareness about tapirs, one of the world's most unique and ancient animals. In 2025, World Tapir Day will again remind people why it is ...

She married an anthropologist and followed him to what is now Belize, to a village deep in the rain forest for which nothing in her suburban New Jersey upbringing prepared her. She quickly learned ...