The Mesoamerican Reef stretches 620 miles across Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico and is crucial for local communities. Almost two million people depend on it for their livelihoods.

This story appears in the October 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the mangroves off the east coast of Central America, at the edge of the Mesoamerican Reef, the world is divided in ...

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This includes the Caribbean Sea, home to the Mesoamerican Reef, the longest barrier reef in the Western ... along the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. It is considered a ...

In the MesoAmerican Reef, WWF with the support of NOAA local partners ... The ads were aired in March 2004 and coincided with community meetings held in fishing communities in Belize, Mexico and ...

(Mayra Nuñez/Centro de Estudios Marinos) Every two years, coral reefs in Mexico, Belize ... the overall health of the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR), the 1,000 km long barrier reef system extending ...

including the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef – the largest reef system in the Western Hemisphere – and coastal marine systems of Cuba. It also hosts the largest intact tracts of seagrass and mangrove in ...