About Us
We are a family-run environmental effort and business. We promote environmental conservation in Belize through activities that are educational, fun, and economically sustainable.
The key to environmental conservation is education and visitation. Our business generates income in rural communities and justifies wilderness conservation.
We are a private organization with a long track record in environmental conservation and education in Belize. Kimo Jolly, the director, is the author of a high school text book, The Environment of Belize, has co-produced a short video on the workings of the Macal River's headwater ecology, Watershed Ecology Program, and has been at the forefront of a national fight against the construction of the controversial Chalillo Dam.
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We educate Belizean as well as foreign students, and one of the chief selling points of our programs is the opportunity for cultural exchange.
While other operators tend to keep tourists and student groups at their own private resorts, we have no resort. Our approach has always been to tour our people through the rural areas of Belize often forgotten or even avoided by other operators. In this way rural communities are encouraged to conserve portions of their private lands, and the income they earn from educational tourism offsets the income they give up by not developing their lands.
Many of the guides we hire are ex-hunters, or ex-slash and burn farmers. The sailboats we hire are ex-fishing boats. Instead of staying at a hotel, we prefer to rent a farmer's riverside pasture, pay him a fee for camping, hire his wife as chief cook, and give you the opportunity to meet a rural Belizean family.
Nothing compares to seeing it with your own eyes. We invite you to come give rural Belize a try. We're sure you'll like it.