Port Honduras Marine Reserve

Marine nature reserve in Toledo District, Belize

16°12′11″N 88°38′02″W / 16.203°N 88.634°W / 16.203; -88.634^[2]Area40,470 hectares (100,000 acres)EstablishedJanuary 2000Governing body

Belize Fisheries Department
Toledo Institute for Development and Environment

Port Honduras Marine Reserve is a national protected marine reserve in the Toledo district of Belize. It was established in January 2000,^[1] and covers 40,470 hectares (100,000 acres) of mangrove and coastal ecosystems. It encompasses over one hundred small, mangrove-fringed cayes, benthic habitats comprising soft-bottom seagrass beds and fringing reefs.^[3]

The reserve is co-managemened by the community-based Non Governmental Organization the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment.^[3] It is divided into three zones: a general use zone, a preservation zone^[4] and a conservation zone.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Belize Tourism Board. "Port of Honduras Marine Reserve". Travel Belize. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
^ "Port Honduras Marine Reserve". protectedplanet.net.
^ ^a ^b Toledo Institute for Development and Environment. "Port Honduras Marine Reserve". Retrieved 3 August 2011.
^ Belize Tropical Forest Studies (2010). "Port Honduras (General Use)". Biodiversity and Environmental Resource Data System.
^ Belize Tropical Forest Studies (2010). "Port Honduras (Conservation Zone)". Biodiversity and Environmental Resource Data System.