Port Honduras Marine Reserve

Port Honduras Marine Reserve
IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)
Map showing the location of Port Honduras Marine Reserve

Map of Belize

Location Gulf of Honduras, Belize
Nearest city Punta Gorda[1]
Coordinates 16°12′11″N 88°38′02″W / 16.203°N 88.634°WCoordinates: 16°12′11″N 88°38′02″W / 16.203°N 88.634°W[2]
Area 40,470 hectares (100,000 acres)
Established January 2000
Governing body
  • Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment
  • 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 Toledo Institute for Development and Environment.[3] It is divided into two zones: a general use zone,[4] and a conservation zone.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Belize Tourism Board. "Port of Honduras Marine Reserve". Travel Belize. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  2. ↑ "Port Honduras Marine Reserve". protectedplanet.net.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Toledo Institute for Development and Environment. "Port Honduras Marine Reserve". Retrieved 3 August 2011.
  4. ↑ Belize Tropical Forest Studies (2010). "Port Honduras (General Use)". Biodiversity and Environmental Resource Data System.
  5. ↑ Belize Tropical Forest Studies (2010). "Port Honduras (Conservation Zone)". Biodiversity and Environmental Resource Data System.