When I moved back to the States after living in Haiti for two years, it

Listen to Conejo residents John Makin and Manuel Caal discuss sustainable community forestry and land

The river at the entrance to Crique Sarco is the Temash. I had been on

I arranged to interview John Makin about sustainable community forestry at 6 am, but I

When I got to Conejo, the first thing I saw was the SATIIM truck. Cordelia,

Part I: trying to get there When I fell in love with Belize, it was

If you’re a dutiful blog reader but nod off at the word, ‘quilt,’ you’ll be

I took a long weekend in Guatemala to meet up with a friend on Rio

Quilting has never been something that particularly interested me. It’s also not something I ever

Emerging from the tiny Tumul K’in radio station where SATIIM director Greg Ch’oc does his

I’ve finally uploaded the video to go with the blog, below, on the three-day ranger

I slept like a rock (thank God for the deluxe mosquito net I had brought)

I spent half of last week on a patrol of the Sarstoon Temash National Park

Nuguchi… that’s Garifuna for ‘my father.’ I wasn’t going to blog about this because it’s

Before getting to my patrol with the SATIIM rangers, let me tell you about my

It’s been brought to my attention that I haven’t given readers much of a sense

Children from the Mayan village of San Pedro Columbia and the Garifuna village of Barranco

Oil Spills: Learning from Disaster With all the catastrophic oil spills that have happened around

The weekend was something of a sampler platter of the amazingly distinct and rich cultures of Southern Belize, providing a taste of what should be celebrated and what could be lost.

Last week I was getting pretty antsy. I had been in Belize, working at SATIIM’s

Day 1 in Punta Gorda I chose to fly to Punta Gorda from Belize City

I get two reactions when I tell people I’m spending the summer in southern Belize: