. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas. Belize tracts the Belize Audubon Society (BAS), a private NGO, to provide management plans and train park wardens. BAS has access to domestic and international funding sources that the government does not, so this relationship works quite well. As well as the protected areas with lUCN's categories I-IV listed in Table , there are also three other privately held reserves in the country (Figure ). The Community Baboon Sanctuary was established in 1985 to protect one of the few healthy black howler monkey Alouatta villosa populat
. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas. Belize tracts the Belize Audubon Society (BAS), a private NGO, to provide management plans and train park wardens. BAS has access to domestic and international funding sources that the government does not, so this relationship works quite well. As well as the protected areas with lUCN's categories I-IV listed in Table , there are also three other privately held reserves in the country (Figure ). The Community Baboon Sanctuary was established in 1985 to protect one of the few healthy black howler monkey Alouatta villosa populations in Central America. Landowners from eight villages included in the area contribute to the maintenance of the sanctuary which now covers 53 sq. km. Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (926 sq. km), is being managed to integrate forestry and conservation by the Programme for Belize (see Box). There is also a 4 sq. km reserve at Monkey Bay (separate from the wildlife sanctuary). Shipstern is the only private reserve in Belize listed in lUCN's categories I-IV; it is a category IV reserve. It is being run along the same lines as Rio Bravo and is also being used as a production area for butterflies for export. The 16 forest reserves, most in the south of Belize (see Figure ), are managed for multiple use. Sustainable extrac- tion of forest products and tourist recreation are permitted where these are consistent with protection of wildlife and envi- ronmental values. These reserves cover a total area of 4487 sq. km (N. Bird, in litt). Figure Private reserves and forest reserves of Belize Source: unpublished data held at WCMC. Forest Rfiserves Privalc Rfseives Waier Bodies. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harcourt, C. S. , Sayer, J. A. , WCMC, CIFOR. IUCN
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