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Jun 15, 2021
Joint Efforts and Joint Celebration: The Belize Sea Turtle Conservation Network
It is Sea Turtle Week and Belize’s conservation community is raising awareness of these endangered creatures, and their long journey sometimes hundreds of miles in open water to their nesting grounds. News Five spoke with three people leading the protection efforts in Belize.
Andrea Polanco, Reporting
Mario Muschamp is off the coast of Punta Gorda. He’s heading to a beach in the Port Honduras Marine Reserve where sea turtles nest.
Mario Muschamp, Terrestrial Manager, TIDE
“This is actually one of the better nesting sites here in the Marine Reserve and so one of the things we do during this time of the year is to walk these beaches and look for any nesting activities. What we do is we try to identify the species by measuring the track from what we see in the sand and then we try to locate the nest and once we locate the nest we take measurement to see how far t
Jun 1, 2021
2021 Hurricane Season Begins; Names for the Storms Released
As all Belizeans know, June first marks the beginning of the hurricane season which runs until November thirty-first each year. While Belize has always tended to be most threatened by hurricanes that form late in the season, tropical cyclones are possible at any time of the year. The Belize Met Service has released the names which will be used to identify these systems in 2021. Predictions are it will be an above average season for storm activity throughout the Atlantic Basin which includes the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. The prediction is for there to be thirteen to twenty named storms, of those, six to ten are expected to become hurricanes and three to six are expected to become major hurricanes (category three or stronger). The Met Service reminds the public that while seasonal predictions do provide some indication of how active a particular hurricane season is ex
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