Laughing Bird Caye is part of the Belize Barrier Reef, a complex system of coral ... The 2024 Mesoamerican Reef Report Card, ...

The Belize Barrier Reef has been removed from the ... “At a time when we are seeing numerous threats to World Heritage sites, Belize’s government has taken real action to protect one of ...

The Belize Barrier Reef is unique not only for its size, but because it is still a thriving ecosystem with potential to avoid the fate of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, which is effectively dying.

According to a press release, the roughly 200-mile-long reef was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1996, but in 2009, due to a spate of threats, it was added to the agency’s endangered list.

The Belize Barrier Reef system, which extends roughly 200 miles along the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, was designated a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1996.

Safeguarding Belize's barrier reef with conservation drones. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 07 / 140722152432.htm ...

Scientists say the Great Barrier Reef is facing major threats due to the climate crisis and that action to save it needs to be taken with "with upmost urgency." Kyodo News/Getty Images.

Beneath the crystalline waters off the coast of Belize, colorful fish weave through the arms of the world's second largest barrier reef, an environmental treasure that UNESCO removed from its list ...

Belize as we know it – the small, English-speaking Central American country perched along the Caribbean Sea – has been around since 1981, but the barrier reef just off the country’s coast is ...

In what the UNESCO World Heritage Centre is calling a "major milestone," the Government of Belize has put into effect a full stop on all offshore oil exploration. Including activity within the region ...