PLACENCIA, Belize — After Hurricane Iris decimated the coral reef at Laughing Bird Caye National Park in 2001, many wrote off the UNESCO World Heritage site as a coral graveyard. But a small group ...

Dive, snorkel, or do as Patricia Johnson suggests: “Hop on a sailing adventure and explore the vibrant marine life, colorful corals, and picture-perfect islands along the Belize Barrier Reef.” ...

The Belize Barrier Reef System is the largest living barrier reef in the western and northern hemispheres, and the second largest coral reef in the entire world (after the Great Barrier Reef).

After that, the political tide turned. In 2016, the government announced a formal policy to ban offshore oil drilling in the seven marine parks that make up the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve.

Belize will be celebrating the 10,000th birthday of the reef with events during the first half of June, starting in San Pedro on Ambergris Caye, through Turneffe Atoll, down south to Hopkins.

Belize additionally hosted 1.01 million cruise passengers the same year, a 4.9 percent increase "Our economy is built on tourism, with reef-related tourism and fisheries alone directly supporting ...

Slickrock Adventures, Long Caye, Glover’s Reef, Belize; (800) 390-5715. The nine-night package costs $2,425 per person, with discounts for certain times of year, children or large groups.

Not far from Belize's famous barrier reef, there's a 200-plus-acre resort called Jaguar Paw that's known for its zip-lining.

The Belize reef system, which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1996, is the second-largest reef system in the world-second only to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The reef is home to some 1 ...

Belize is located in Central America, but it has a decidedly Caribbean feel, making it appealing for visitors who want to go snorkeling and diving in some of the most beautiful water in the world.

Belize provided a likely 'blue' model for conserving some of the world's most vulnerable marine ecosystems on Friday, swapping a promise to protect the northern Hemisphere's biggest barrier reef ...