part of the Belize Barrier Reef. The 190-mile-long section of the 560-mile Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (the world’s second largest barrier reef after Australia’s) extends from Cancún to ...

The Mesoamerican Reef system stretches more than 600 miles along the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Its Australian cousin, the Great Barrier Reef, is great indeed at 1,429 ...

Most are in the Pacific. Recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993, its elliptical-shaped reef system—coincidentally shaped like Belize itself—stretches 18 miles long and 7 miles ...

Home to almost 1,400 species, the Belize Barrier Reef is one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. It has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996. Home to almost 1,400 ...

The Mesoamerican Reef (MAR), from the northern tip of the ... other offshore sites, and the Belize Barrier Reef (BBR). Using a pair of standardized noninvasive monitoring methods, including underwater ...

Nadia Bood, Mesoamerican reef scientist at WWF in Belize, said: “This is great news for Belize. Not only has its government listened to calls to protect the Belize Barrier Reef, which only a year ago ...

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 ...