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Contemplating taking your youngsters overseas to your subsequent household getaway? This time round, skip the marathon flight and select Belize. By doing so, there’s little question you’ll be treating your loved ones to a fun-filled journey that broadens their horizons whereas creating lifelong reminiscences. Journey can form your baby’s improvement in outstanding methods. Based on neuroscientists, exposing youngsters to new environments helps them develop into extra assured, versatile, and self-aware. Once you add the seashores, rainforests, and wildlife of Belize to the combo, your youngsters could have loads of enjoyable whereas gaining experiences that stimulate mind improvement and higher-level pondering.…

BirdsCaribbean visiting Woodbourne in 2022 throughout our Wetlands Training Workshop in Barbados. L to R: Lisa Sorenson, Wayne “Doc” Burke, Alex Sansom, Ian “Bolt” Alkins. (picture by Michele Kading) Wayne’s 2009 publication within the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historic Society fantastically paperwork Woodbourne’s institution and highlights the positioning’s immense ecological worth. To make sure its long-term safety, he co-founded the Shorebird Conservation Belief, a registered charity in Barbados. Wayne Burke at Woodbourne Shorebird Refuge. (picture by Yves Aubrey) Wayne’s affect prolonged past Woodbourne. His efforts, in collaboration with the Barbados Wildfowlers Affiliation, helped shift looking practices in Barbados,…

Vacationers searching for straightforward methods to get to Belize now have loads of choices, regardless of the place they’re. With an extended checklist of direct flight routes obtainable, the dually Caribbean and Central American nation is extra accessible than ever, and that features to vacationers from Latin America. Earlier this 12 months, COPA Airways introduced that it will be rising its weekly service from Panama to Belize from as soon as to twice. Now, fliers are capable of take pleasure in direct service on each Mondays and Fridays. These new twice-weekly flights have been working since June 2024, however in…

Have a good time World Migratory Chook Day (WMBD)  with us in 2024! This 12 months’s theme is “Protect Insects, Protect Birds”. Have enjoyable studying a couple of new migratory hen day by day. Now we have coloring pages, fascinating information, actions, and extra. Obtain without cost and revel in nature with your loved ones at dwelling. Migratory Chook of the Day: Cliff Swallow Meet the Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)! The Cliff Swallow is a grasp of the skies, performing dazzling acrobatics because it hunts for its favourite meals—flying bugs. Distinctive amongst swallows, the Cliff Swallow incessantly adjustments altitude whereas…

High quality time with the household can look a bit completely different for everyone, however for individuals who like to journey, it might contain tons of multi-gen journeys that carry everybody (from the youngsters to the youngsters at coronary heart) collectively. In Belize, on the seashores of the Stann Creek district, one Muy’Ono Resort is aiming to make these household holidays as memorable as will be. Discovered on the nation’s southern coast, Hopkins Bay Resort prides itself on with the ability to provide everybody a enjoyable time. Whether or not you’re a bunch of 4 or approach (approach) extra, right…

We’re nonetheless buzzing from our improbable BirdsCaribbean twenty fourth Worldwide Convention in Santo Domingo! Our week-long Dominican Republic journey was packed filled with insightful learnings, spectacular birding, and experiencing the wealthy tradition of our gracious hosts — however there’s one function of the convention that almost all stands out to us — our unbelievable neighborhood! The chance to attach with the passionate trailblazers advancing the work of hen conservation throughout the area was unforgettable. Due to our beneficiant sponsors, we had been in a position to provide scholarships to Caribbean conservation leaders from across the area to hitch us in…

Amir Jangoo included in West Indies squad for Bangladesh ODIs Mon, Dec 2, ’24   Cricket West Indies (CWI) is worked up to announce the 15-man squad chosen for the eagerly awaited West Indies Males’s CG United One Day Worldwide (ODI) dwelling sequence in opposition to Bangladesh. Dubbed the “West Indies Home for Christmas” sequence, the three-match encounter might be performed at Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts & Nevis, from 8–12 December 2024. There are two modifications from the squad which defeated England 2-1 in “The Rivalry” sequence, with all-rounder Justin Greaves and wicketkeeper-batter Amir Jangoo changing Hayden Walsh Jnr…

Conservation will not be a straightforward calling. Biodiversity safety is a fancy endeavor that requires a myriad of interventions: typically schooling and consciousness elevating, typically capability constructing, typically troublesome and tiring fieldwork for us to be taught extra about methods to defend species, typically navigating complicated networks of stakeholders and legal guidelines — all the time, it requires a particular form of dogged persistence. Work typically calls for lengthy hours, exhausting days within the subject, and battling towards entrenched programs and beliefs. Regardless of the difficult nature of this work, our neighborhood persistently goes above and past in service of…

CWI president sad with Jamaica and Barbados after Super50 controversy Tue, Dec 3, ’24   After a controversial finish to the Regional Super50 lately, president of Cricket West Indies (CWI) Dr Kishore Shallow says Jamaica’s and Barbados’ function within the incident may put a serious dent within the event’s model. No motion passed off within the remaining on the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Trinidad on Saturday, November 23 because the Jamaica Scorpions and Barbados Delight forfeited the ultimate. The match was initially set for 1:00 pm however rain delayed the beginning of play. Nonetheless, after inspection of the sector, match…

Have fun World Migratory Chook Day (WMBD)  with us in 2024! This 12 months’s theme is “Protect Insects, Protect Birds”. Have enjoyable studying a couple of new migratory fowl every single day. We now have coloring pages, attention-grabbing information, actions, and extra. Obtain without spending a dime and revel in nature with your loved ones at residence. Migratory Chook of the Day: Summer season Tanager Summer season Tanagers are certainly one of our boldest and brightest migratory birds, and so they are available in three thrilling “flavors”! Search for them in a completely brilliant pink plumage or what we wish…