The future of some of the world's rarest mammals and birds is in doubt after a court in Belize ruled that a giant Canadian power company, Fortis, could build a dam on the upper Macal river in the tiny ...

On Feb. 13, the government of Belize approved the 110-square-kilometer Belize northeastern biological corridor. The corridor aims to provide safe passage for wild animals like jaguars, pumas and Baird ...

The UK's Privy Council has dismissed attempts by environmentalists to block construction of a controversial dam project in the jungle of Belize. The committee, the highest appeal court for the central ...

I received the following email from my grandson Parker, who was on a field trip in Central America: “While walking a trail in Belize after dark, a member of our group spotted a faint eyeshine from ...

They may be the largest living land mammals of the Americas with few predators, but for the few thousand wild tapirs left in the world the future looks bleak. Over the last 30 million years, the ...

The UK's historic Privy Council is to hear a challenge to the construction of a dam in Belize, in central America. Environmental campaigners say the dam would threaten rare species and pose a serious ...

The Central American tapir is large. In fact, it’s the largest terrestrial mammal in the Neotropics. These animals can weigh up to 300 kilograms and the Bribri people of Costa Rica believe that a ...