Community Baboon Sanctuary Visitor Center and Museum

Shining World Leadership segment - Community Baboon Sanctuary in Belize

And now for our series of Shining World Leadership segment on an animal sanctuary in Belize which shares important eco-information with visitors and members of the nearby communities.

For decades, Supreme Master Ching Hai has exemplified unconditional love through her worldwide humanitarian work. She has inspired our Association members and countless people across the globe, to follow her compassionate example. Through enlightened leadership a better world is truly possible. In recent times, a new and exciting phenomenon is on the rise that is bringing much hope and light to our planet Earth. More and more leaders and governments around the world are adopting practices that greatly improve and enhance the lives of their co-citizens, human and animal alike.

The Community Baboon Sanctuary (CBS) of Bermudian Landing, Belize, Central America, is dedicated to preserving the habitat of the black howler monkey. CBS is also committed to developing eco-tourism as an Earth-friendly source of livelihood for the people in the nearby area. The Sanctuary has the support of the surrounding communities, with 220 individuals in nine villages pledging to maintain their land in ways that will help conserve the monkey population. The non-profit was established in 1985 by Belizean Mr. Fallet Young and Dr. Robert Horwich, an American primatologist. The Sanctuary is home to almost 200 species of birds and numerous animals, including endangered ones. Caring innovations such as special bridges made for the herbivorous black howler monkeys facilitate their free movements. Visitors can participate in a wide variety of activities such as nature walks, bird watching, or night time explorations. A museum which showcases informative eco-displays and a gift-shop with locally crafted items are also part of the Sanctuary. In additions, an Education Center holds programs about the importance of biodiversity and sustainability. Bravo, Community Baboon Sanctuary, for creating a flourishing and safe habitat for the black howler monkey and other precious wildlife. May our Earth soon become a place where all beings thrive in peace and happiness.

Belize Baboon Sanctuary | Belize Baboon Sanctuary Tour

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On February 23, 1985, the Belize Baboon Sanctuary was founded by Dr. Robert Horwich an American primatologist and Fallet Young, a landowner on the village of Bermudian Landing. Originally created with twelve other landowners, as of 2013 there were over 200 properties involved. In 1998, the Women's Conservation Group was formed with women from the 7 villages in the Belize River Valley, directed by Jessy Young from 1998. In 2017 the group was awarded a United Nations Equator Prize for their efforts in improving local livelihoods while safeguarding vulnerable wildlife populations. For more information, visit our website:

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There are just two unique sorts of monkeys dwelling all through the wildernesses of Belize, the Spider Monkey and the Howler Monkey. Despite the fact that the Howler Monkey and the Spider Monkey are both found all through Belize, they are not discovered just in Belize; their territory extends north into Mexico and south into the Amazon locale in South America.


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Despite the fact that there are just two sorts of monkeys in Belize there are two class of the Spider Monkey: the Black-Headed and the Geoffroy's. Each the Black-Headed and the Geoffroy's has no less than one subspecies in Belize. The Howler Monkey then again has just a single animal varieties in Belize, called the Guatemalan Black Howler. The Black Howler is a piece of the Mantled Howler Group.

As the names recommend the Black Howler and the Black Headed Spider Monkey are both dark in shading. Nonetheless, the Geoffroy's Spider Monkey is caramel shaded with a chocolate-hued top on its head.

The extent of the Spider Monkeys in Belize are about the same for both species and weigh around 15 pounds with guys being the biggest. Other intriguing body qualities of the Spider Monkeys is that their tails, up to 33 creeps long, are longer than their bodies, which is a normal of 25 inches in length while their arms are 15 - 25 percent longer than their legs and they have no thumbs.

The Black Howler Monkey is by a long shot the biggest Monkey in Belize with guys weighing around 25 pounds. Despite the fact that the Howler Monkey is not the biggest monkey on the planet a Howler's yell can be heard for around 20 miles away, 4 times more than that of a lion's 5 mile voice extend. This voice scope of the Howler Monkey is said to make them the loudest land creature on the planet.

The protection status for monkeys in Belize is great. Through preservation endeavors in Belize, monkeys are presently once in a while chased. Because of Belize's moderate advancement significant environment misfortune is very little of an issue. Really one issue to the pulverization of living space is from nature itself as tropical storms are known to harm the rainforest overhang and put the monkeys in peril, however significant sea tempests are genuinely rare. Begun in 1985, the Community Baboon Sanctuary Museum and Visitor's Center is the best place in Belize to see monkeys, particularly Howlers, mandrills, as Belizean individuals call them. Day trips from Belize City out to the Mandrill Sanctuary, the nearby name for the Sanctuary, is situated at Bermudian Landing. The haven has more than 40,000 guests per year and is a genuine group push to help secure the monkeys.