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Audit finds Denver sustainability office lacks plan to reach 2020 goals for environment-friendly city
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock delivers his State of the City address from the outdoor plaza at Denver International Airport on July 11, 2016.
By Bruce Finley | bfinley@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
A city audit of Mayor Michael Hancock's sustainability office has found it has no plan for measuring progress and achieving Denver's 2020 environmental goals.
And no plan means no accountability for city officials tasked with ensuring goals are met, according to a report Auditor Tim O'Brien made available Thursday. Denver's 2020 goals include cutting greenhouse gas emissions, saving energy in city buildings, cleaning storm-water runoff, making neighborhoods nicer for walking, ensuring less than 10 percent of kids are obese and that 95 percent of Denver residents have access to medical care, using Colorado-grown food, and shifting transportation away from single-occupant vehicles.
"Without the foundation of a mission, goals, strategies, performance measures, and performance information possible through a well-designed strategic plan, the Office of Sustainability is not optimally positioned to fulfill the leadership role to which it has been called," O'Brien's audit found. "The city's broad commitment to sustainability must have an owner or it risks waning commitment and focus by a currently disconnected governance structure. Citizens demand accountability from their governments, and currently there is no one person or entity within the city that is ultimately responsible for ensuring that the 2020 goals remain a priority."
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Hancock created the office in 2013. The idea was to make sure people and the natural environment thrive in the future.
But Hancock's executive order doesn't give Denver's chief of sustainability the power to take action such as enforcing deadlines.
Starting around 2005, Denver leaders began exploring how to reduce citywide emissions of heat-trapping gases linked by scientists to climate change. Mayors nationwide had resolved to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2010. Denver's former mayor, Gov. John Hickenlooper, had launched a "Greenprint Denver" initiative. A first climate action plan in 2007 recommended incentives for saving energy, expanded recycling and cleaner transportation.
Hancock in 2011 declared he would expand Denver's push for "sustainability."
The term sustainability has created confusion. Denver officials who wrote Hancock's order creating the sustainability office defined sustainability as: "an end result and a process of planning and operating that provides for the needs of our people and businesses today without impairing our ability to continue providing for their needs in the future."
Responding to the audit, Denver sustainability officials said their mission is guiding and coordinating citywide efforts – not implementing projects – and that they are not in a position to take steps needed to reach goals.
In a response letter to O'Brien, chief sustainability officer Jerry Tinianow said the office lacks sufficient authority and resources to ensure 2020 goals are met.
"We already have all of the elements of a strategic plan, including a mission statement, a sustainability vision, the 2020 goals themselves, and specific strategies designed and implemented by specific agencies for trying to meet the goals," Tinianow said Thursday, responding to queries.
"We just don't have these materials in a single, one-stop-shopping document. They are scattered among different documents. We've agreed to assemble them into a single document by June 30."
The audit is fair, he said. "I'm not disputing it at all. We need to do a better job of reporting. We also need a little more authority to get agencies to give us the data we need when we need it."
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Bruce Finley | Environment Reporter
Bruce Finley covers environment issues, the land air and water struggles shaping Colorado and the West. Finley grew up in Colorado, graduated from Stanford, then earned masters degrees in international relations as a Fulbright scholar in Britain and in journalism at Northwestern. He is also a lawyer and previously handled international news with on-site reporting in 40 countries.
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ENGLISH 133C: King Arthur's Court: Medieval and Modern
Thomas Malory's Arthurian epic Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur) is often thought of as the last medieval English text. As a prose narrative describing the gradual annihilation of King Arthur's legendary court at Camelot and the disintegration of the medieval courtly values that once held it together, the book seems to be a fitting swan song for what we think of as the English middle ages. In this course students will read Malory's Middle English legend of King Arthur in its historical and material context, developing an appreciation for its literary style and cultivating an awareness of the medieval traditions and technologies that shaped the author's work. We will then read T. H. White's The Once and Future King, a 20th century Arthurian novel based on Le Morte D'Arthur, and students will compare White's interpretation and adaptation to their own encounter with Malory's text. This course examines how authors and readers confront and imagine the medieval, and how the quest to capture the elusive idea of the dark ages illuminates the preoccupations of the present.
Terms: Sum | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors: Ashton, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 133C | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Class # 23628 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM
06/25/2018 - 08/16/2018 Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 200-201 with Ashton, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 134C: The Western: Imagining the West in Fiction and Film (AMSTUD 134C)
The Wild West: a mythical place seared deep into the American imagination. Its familiar tropes lone riders on horseback, desert sunsets, saloon fights, train robberies echo through countless Western stories, novels, films, radio programs, and television series. Both formulaic and flexible, the Western has endured as a popular genre in American culture for more than a century, embodying and responding to many of the nation's broader anxieties surrounding its colonial history, its notions of masculinity and gender roles, its fascination with guns and violence, and its ideals of self-reliance and individualism. In this class we'll examine the Western genre through a selection of its central works in fiction and film, from the first dime novel Western, Ann S. Stephens Malaeska (1860), to Cormac McCarthy¿s acclaimed Blood Meridian (1985); and from the first silent film Western, Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903), to the mid-century Hollywood films of John Ford, to Maggie Greenwald¿s feminist Western, The Ballad of Little Jo (1993). Along the way we'll examine the Western as both a literary form and a cultural phenomenon, probing the history of its enduring appeal as a genre. How do these novels and films construct, adapt, and subvert the form and expectations of the Western, and how do they both perpetuate and challenge the broader cultural problems of their, and our, time? Finally, as Californians and inheritors of the nation's westward expansion, what does the Western tell us about national myths of the West, and the place in which we live?
ENGLISH 134C | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Class # 23629 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 1
ENGLISH 135C: Reading and Writing the Personal Essay
This course examines the literary and cultural significance of the personal essay. We will begin with some influential theories of the essay, and conclude by considering the changing media from periodicals to blogs in which it appears. In between, we will explore some of the many reasons writers have had for writing themselves into their essays, such as explaining their personal tastes, demanding action from their readers, bearing witness to trauma, and making the personal political. Course readings will be drawn from across the rich history of the personal essay, including works by Charles Lamb, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Alice Walker, David Foster Wallace, Elif Batuman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. As we explore the literary history, structure, and style of the personal essay, we will also reflect on what this genre reveals about the modern person. How are individuals shaped by social, cultural, and political forces? How are the ways we construct and express ourselves affected by changes in the media? And what might the personal essay reveal about the shifting boundaries between self and other, public and private, fact and fiction? Throughout the course, students will complete a series of short critical assignments, culminating in a final paper in which they will apply what they have learned to produce personal essays of their own.
Instructors: Taylor, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 135C | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Class # 23630 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | In Person | Students enrolled: 9 / 16
06/25/2018 - 08/16/2018 Mon, Wed 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 200-105 with Taylor, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 143A: American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore (AMSTUD 143M, ENGLISH 43A, NATIVEAM 143A)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143A.) Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography, "Black Elk Speaks."
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: Fields, K. (PI) ; Pickering, E. (PI)
ENGLISH 143A | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 19309 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | In Person | Students enrolled: 14
09/25/2017 - 12/08/2017 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 200-305 with Fields, K. (PI)
Instructors: Fields, K. (PI)
ENGLISH 143A | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 32848 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS | In Person
09/25/2017 - 12/08/2017 Tue 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM at 200-202
09/25/2017 - 12/08/2017 Thu 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM at 160-315 with Pickering, E. (PI)
Instructors: Pickering, E. (PI)
09/25/2017 - 12/08/2017 Thu 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM at 260-001
ENGLISH 144: Major Modernists: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot
What made modernism `new? Is the movement `evergreen? We examine representational change, narrative innovation, and political aesthetics in the poetry, short fiction, and novels of four iconic pioneers: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, and T.S. Eliot.
Instructors: Chun, C. (PI) ; Staveley, A. (PI)
04/02/2018 - 06/06/2018 Tue, Thu 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM at 200-202 with Staveley, A. (PI)
04/02/2018 - 06/06/2018 Mon 7:30 PM - 8:20 PM at 200-105 with Chun, C. (PI)
Instructors: Chun, C. (PI)
04/02/2018 - 06/06/2018 Wed 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM at 200-105 with Chun, C. (PI)
ENGLISH 145D: Jewish American Literature (AMSTUD 145D, JEWISHST 155D, REES 145D)
From its inception, Jewish-American literature has taken as its subject as well as its context the idea of Jewishness itself. Jewish culture is a diasporic one, and for this reason the concept of Jewishness differs from country to country and across time. What stays remarkably similar, though, is Jewish self-perception and relatedly Jewish literary style. This is as true for the first-generation immigrant writers like Isaac Bashevis Singer and Anzia Yezierska who came to the United States from abroad as it is for their second-generation children born in the United States, and the children of those children. In this course, we will consider the difficulties of displacement for the emigrant generation and their efforts to sustain their cultural integrity in the multicultural American environment. We'll also examine the often comic revolt of their American-born children and grandchildren against their (grand-)parents nostalgia and failure to assimilate. Only by considering these transnational roots can one understand the particularity of the Jewish-American novel in relation to mainstream and minority American literatures. In investigating the link between American Jewish writers and their literary progenitors, we will draw largely but not exclusively from Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe.
ENGLISH 145D | 5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 34896 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | SEM
04/02/2018 - 06/06/2018 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 460-301 with Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
ENGLISH 146A: Steinbeck (AMSTUD 146A)
Introduction to the work of an American writer, beloved by general readers, often reviled by critics, whose career spanned from the Great Depression through World War II to the social upheavals of the 1960s. Focus on the social and political contexts of Steinbeck's major works; his fascination with California and Mexico; his interdisciplinary interest in marine biology and in philosophy; his diverse experiments with literary form, including drama and film.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: Jones, G. (PI) ; Merz, A. (PI) ; Molyneux, F. (PI) ; Redmond, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 146A | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 18826 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 44
04/02/2018 - 06/06/2018 Tue, Thu 9:00 AM - 10:20 AM at McMurtry Building 102, Oshman with Jones, G. (PI)
Instructors: Jones, G. (PI)
ENGLISH 146A | UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 35285 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS | Students enrolled: 1
04/02/2018 - 06/06/2018 Fri 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM at 460-334 with Redmond, M. (PI)
Instructors: Redmond, M. (PI)
04/02/2018 - 06/06/2018 Fri 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM at 460-334 with Redmond, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 146A | UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 35287 | Section 04 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS
04/02/2018 - 06/06/2018 Wed 5:30 PM - 6:20 PM at 160-322 with Merz, A. (PI)
Instructors: Merz, A. (PI)
04/02/2018 - 06/06/2018 Thu 5:30 PM - 6:20 PM at 160-329 with Molyneux, F. (PI)
Instructors: Molyneux, F. (PI)
ENGLISH 148: Family Drama: American Plays about Families (TAPS 248)
Focus on great dramas about family life (Albee, Kushner, Shephard, Vogel, Kron, Nottage, Parks). Communication in writing and speaking about conflict central to learning in this class.
ENGLISH 151F: Angelheaded Hipsters: Beat Writers of San Francisco and New York
Reading of central writers of the Beat movement (Ginsberg, Kerouac, di Prima, Snyder, Whalen) as well as some related writers (Creeley, Gunn, Levertov). Issues explored include NY and SF, Buddhism and leftist politics, poetry and jazz. Some exposure to reading poems to jazz accompaniment. Examination of some of the writers and performers growing out of the Beats: Bob Dylan, rock music, especially from San Francisco, and jazz.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
ENGLISH 151F | 5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | Class # 20178 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | In Person | Students enrolled: 13
01/08/2018 - 03/16/2018 Mon, Wed 9:30 AM - 11:20 AM at 200-105 with Fields, K. (PI)
ENGLISH 152G: Harlem Renaissance and Modernism
Examination of the explosion of African American artistic expression during 1920s and 30s New York known as the Harlem Renaissance. Amiri Baraka once referred to the Renaissance as a kind of "vicious Modernism", as a "BangClash", that impacted and was impacted by political, cultural and aesthetic changes not only in the U.S. but Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. Focus on the literature, graphic arts, and the music of the era in this global context.
Instructors: Elam, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 152G | 5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 17549 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | LEC | In Person | Students enrolled: 52 / 60
09/25/2017 - 12/08/2017 Mon, Wed 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM at Lathrop 282 with Elam, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 152G | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 32810 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | DIS | In Person
09/25/2017 - 12/08/2017 Fri 5:30 PM - 6:20 PM at 160-120
09/25/2017 - 12/08/2017 Thu 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM at 200-013
09/25/2017 - 12/08/2017 Fri 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at STLC119

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Metal Gear Solid V: OH MY GOD IT WON'T END
Thirty five fucking hours. That's my approximate time put into MGSV so far. But by God does it feel longer.
Maybe it's because I suck at most of the missions. Or maybe it's because a lot of the missions feel like they repeat. Or maybe it's because everything feels so generic that there is no real feeling of progression or artistry that there was in the previous games.
Whenever Kaz or Ocelot (I honestly can't tell the two apart over radio) guides you through a mission and says the "target" or the "prisoner" my eyes start to roll involuntarily. It's because me and my eyes know that it's because the dialogue has been made generic in the interests of efficiency. The prisoner or the target will not have their name mentioned and will just be referenced in the most fleeting manner.
The MGS games have never been perfect, and one of the common criticisms of the previous titles was that they always felt short, or always left the player wanting more. MGSV almost feels like Hideo Kojima read these criticisms and went "Oh you want more? I'll give you fuckers so much more you won't ever want to play an MGS game ever again!" Or something to that affect. The gripes I have expressed about MGSV both on here and on Twitter wouldn't normally send me into the nark-osphere, but the fact that this entry into the series is so long, and so repetitive, just highlights all of the flaws whilst diluting any positive aspects.
I'm on episode 25. I have read that there are 50 episodes. So, assuming I don't get worse, or the game doesn't get exponentially more difficult, I should be on track to finish the game with about a 70 hour play time logged.
Unacceptable.
That is more than the entirety of Breaking Bad's entire run. And at no point during Breaking Bad did I think "Oh my God please just fucking finish already!"
Zelda: A Fart In The Wind
So I finally finished my first The Legend Of Zelda game. Whilst on a plane. In the middle of turbulence. I'm a terrible flyer and I was trying to do anything that would take my mind off the inevitable crash that I knew was about to transpire. But after 55 hours of playing I was happy that the adventure was finally over, and the ending was satisfying enough for me to not throw a hissy fit. Even if I was slightly unpleasantly surprised that there was no post-credits sandbox.
Looking back, I have a feeling TLOZ: Breath Of The Wild (BOTW) will not leave as lasting an impression as I thought it might. Considering I was willing to buy my first Nintendo console solely based on the trailers for BOTW, my opinion of it has definitely muddied somewhat. That isn't to say it's a bad game. It's a great game with plenty of great ideas, interesting challenges and gorgeous scenery. But there was definitely something missing from it, although what that "it" is, I'm not entirely sure of.
I knew something was up when I had to take a break from my constant playing of the game. After playing the game fairly steadily from April to June, I then took a month off as I was travelling South East Asia (snort). Once I arrived back home at the end of the month, I had zero urge to play BOTW. No urge to complete any of the side missions, or explore more of the map or finish the main quest to destroy Ganon. I think after having already completed the four boss dungeons, finding all but one of the hidden memories and finding (but not quite yet receiving) the Master Sword, I had a feeling of "yeah, this is close enough, no need to carry on." I didn't think that the game could throw any surprises at me at this point. I would get the Master Sword, face Ganon, save the princess and that would be it. And I was correct, naturally.
In a sandbox-esque game like BOTW you really do need interesting side missions/quests/activities to keep the player from turning off the console and going back to Rocket League. That is something I think BOTW sorely lacks. The NPC's don't do enough to differentiate from one another, and all of their side quests feel so token and lacking in stakes that they're not worth bothering with. If you compared it to some of the side missions in Skyrim, some of which are more interesting than the main quest itself, the side missions in BOTW just fall so, so, so short.
BOTW was a bold, new direction for the Zelda series, and naturally on a first major attempt at something new, not everything is going to be perfect. Nintendo has already confirmed that they're going to be sticking to the sandbox formula for future Zelda games (or at the very least the next one), so hopefully they will be working on fine tuning and improving the areas where BOTW fell short.
Again, I enjoyed the game immensely, so don't look at this post as some kind of ignorant hate speech. I'm still trying to get through MGS V at the moment, and believe me, I would much rather be starting BOTW for the first time again than going through this overly-verbose nonsense.


Nom pagoda was once a small temple nestled in a centuries-old pine forest. It underwent a major renovation in the 17th century to acquire the majestic look we see today.
The soul of the Nom pagoda resides in its ancient secular relics. A copper bell, transverse paintings, and hundreds of earthen statues are the pride of the Nom villagers.
Tran Dinh Van, a villager, said, "Our pagoda is unique. It has kept intact its collection of 128 earthen statues dating back to the 15th century. The sanctuary dedicated to the three precious entities of Buddhism has also kept its original architecture. "
Behind the houses of worship is a garden of laterite stupas preserved intact despite the passage of time. Most Venerable Thich Hong Hue, head of the pagoda, said, "Our priority is to preserve the architectural and cultural beauty of the pagoda. It has undergone several renovations but its original charm has been carefully preserved throughout history. "
Every year, the Nom Pagoda welcomes thousands of pilgrims and tourists who want to explore the pagoda and nearby attractions like Nom village, Nom market, and the Tam Giang communal house.


HOUSTON — The world championship of bass fishing — the 2017 GEICO Bassmaster Classic presented by GoPro — will be held in Houston for the first time in the event's 47-year history, B.A.S.S. and the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority, the event hosts, revealed today.
The announcement was made during a press conference in Houston's Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros and where 52 of the world's best bass anglers will weigh their fish during the March 24-26, 2017, event.
The fishing competition will take place on Lake Conroe, a 21,000-acre impoundment of the San Jacinto River in Montgomery and Walker counties noted for producing big largemouth bass.
Also during Bassmaster Classic Week in Houston, the nation's leading fishing tackle and boat manufacturers will take part in the annual Bassmaster Classic Outdoor Expo, to be held March 24-26 in the George R. Brown Convention Center. In recent years, tackle and lure companies have been using the Classic Expo as the venue to introduce their newest products to bass fishing fans. The 2017 Expo will cover more than 300,000 square feet, the largest in Bassmaster Classic history.
The 2017 event will mark only the second time for the "Super Bowl of Bass Fishing" to be held in Texas. Television fishing show host Hank Parker won the 1979 Classic on Lake Texoma on the Texas-Oklahoma border. Conroe has never hosted a Bassmaster Elite Series event; however, many of the stars of the Elite Series are familiar with the lake. It was the site of the Toyota Texas Bass Classic from 2009-2013.
In addition, superstar pro Rick Clunn, a four-time Classic Champion, worked as a bass guide on Conroe during the early years of his 42-year career in professional fishing. He is off to a strong start toward qualifying for what would be his 33rd Classic — he won the season opener of the Elite Series in March on Florida's St. Johns River. Clunn will be 70 years old when the 2017 Classic gets under way.
The Classic champion will earn $300,000, part of the more than $1 million in prize money to be paid out to the anglers.
Akin expects the event next year to draw some of the largest crowds in tournament history. More than 107,000 people attended one or more venues during this year's Classic in Tulsa, Okla., and on Grand Lake O' the Cherokees. The event has averaged more than 102,000 in attendance over the past five years.
Officials at host cities during that time have reported an economic impact from the event ranging from $22 million to nearly $24 million.
More than 250 media representatives from throughout the United States and several foreign countries are credentialed to cover the event each year, and The Weather Channel regularly broadcasts live from the takeoff each morning. Several thousand fishing fans are expected to brave chilly morning temperatures to watch the takeoff next year at Lake Conroe.
Fans who don't make it to the lake will be tuning in to live coverage of the competition through "Bassmaster Classic Live," a cutting-edge program that streams live, on-the-water fishing action through the B.A.S.S. website, Bassmaster.com. More than 400,000 video plays of Classic Live were recorded this year, resulting in nearly 12 million minutes viewed.
The 2017 GEICO Bassmaster Classic is being hosted locally by the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority, and the fishing action on Lake Conroe is presented by the Conroe Convention and Visitors Bureau.


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Belize Marine Conservation & Diving
Conservation and Island Life
Duration 7	- 180	Days
Dive in some of the most pristine and renowned marine sites in the world, helping further the research and protection of these pristine ecosystems in Belize.
Nestled in Central America on the Caribbean coast between Mexico and Guatemala, Belize lies at the centre of the Mesoamerican "biodiversity hotspot". Pristine subtropical forests provide a refuge for wildlife and conceal ancient Mayan ruins whilst the warm clear waters of the Caribbean lap sandy Cayes offering access to the world's second longest barrier reef and a UNESCO World Heritage Site; renowned for its spectacular snorkelling and diving.
You will explore, chart and monitor extensive areas of pristine coral and vast seagrass beds, record populations of reef fish and commercially important invertebrate species, and assist in annual reef health check. On shore you will explore the lushforests of red, white and black mangroves; the unique ecosystem which bridges the land and the ocean.
Your days will be eventful; the work will be challenging, rewarding and fun. Your discoveries will be of huge benefit to the conservation of these fabulous coral reefs and you will gain immense satisfaction from knowing that you have helped protect these precious natural resources for future generations.
The results from your investigations will supply vital baseline information on the Belizean coastline to enable the sustainable management of natural resources in the region and the protection of the marine wildlife in partnership with the Belize Fisheries Department.
Experience Volunteering
Region Central America
Country Belize
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