Mar 15, 2021
Encroachments in the Bladen Nature Reserve
There is trouble brewing in one of Belize’s nature reserves, the kind that could escalate as it has in the Chiquibul. This time, it is the Bladen Reserve in Toledo facing millions of dollars in losses from extracted resources. The reserve is a hundred thousand acres of forest that enjoys the highest status of protection in Belize where hunting, fishing, logging, tourism and agricultural activities are not allowed. But tonight, reporter Andrea Polanco tells us more about illegal logging in the Bladen Reserve.
Andrea Polanco, Reporting
The Ya’axche Conservation Trust found out last month there are organized incursions happening deep inside the Bladen Nature Reserve. A team of the Y.C.T. rangers were on patrol in the Bladen in mid-February and that’s when they found out that the trees are cut down.