Belize secures final link in critical wildlife corridor connecting Mesoamerica's largest forest block

The government of Belize donated more than 3,500 acres to the Maya Forest Corridor Trust, completing a 50,000-acre corridor that enables jaguars, Baird's tapirs, Central American river turtles and other wildlife to move freely across protected forests in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico.

Without the corridor, conservationists estimate jaguars would become locally extinct within 50 years in parts of southern Belize.