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Program Objectives:
- Disseminate information on importance of marine resources
- Raise awareness of conservation issues
- Foster voluntary compliance of the marine reserve and the Belize Fisheries Department regulations through stakeholder involvement
Program Activities
- Responsible tour guide seminar
Each year during the slow season guides are requested to participate in a short refresher seminar focused on reviewing the rules and regulations governing the reserve and information on new projects, monitoring results, and any changes to the Reserve zoning and management are shared with guides. These seminars are voluntary, and are conducted on a one and one basis at each dive shop in San Pedro Town and Caye Caulker Village. Topics normally covered are:
- Zoning
- Rules and regulations
- Fisheries regulations
- Proper use of channel and moorings
- Reef etiquette guidelines
- Monitoring results.
From time to time personnel from the neighboring Reserves (Bacalar Chico and Caye caulker Marine Reserve) are invited to talk to guides about management and activities their area. These seminars also function as a way for the reserve management to get some feedback from guides. To listen to their concerns, and to answer any questions they may have. The information gathered from the guides are then reviewed, and utilized to improve the management of the Reserve.
- School programs
Hol Chan provides ecology and conservation lessons to primary schools each year. An effort is made to teach a lesson in every classroom in San Pedro and Caye Caulker. Topics that have been covered, but are not limited to are:
- Marine reserves
- Coral reef ecology
- Mangroves
- Seagrass
- Queen conch
- Sea turtles
- Manatees
In Belize the month of March is observed as child stimulation month. Hol Chan annually collaborates with pre-schools in San Pedro Town to provide preschoolers with a guided tour of the visitor center at the office
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