Accolades for Francis Ford Coppola’s Resorts at the Travel & Leisure World’s Best Awards

Francis Ford Coppola’s famed resort Blancaneaux Lodge in San Ignacio, Belize has been named “Best Resort in Central + South America” in Travel + Leisure’s 15th Annual World’s Best Awards readers’ poll, with Turtle Inn in Placencia, Belize receiving the seventh place accolade on the list of Top 10 Resorts in Central + South America.

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Wildlife Experts Bruce & Carolyn Miller to visit Blancaneaux Lodge

Blancaneaux Lodge will be hosting bat and wildlife experts Bruce & Carolyn Miller from March 3-9, 2010. The Millers are conducting a risk assessment for the bats of Belize, deploying acoustic monitoring stations around the lodge and at cave mouths within a 10-mile radius. There are 78 species of bats in Belize and they are good indicators of environmental health.

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Thanks from Northeastern State

We received the following note from Erik Terdal, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Natural Sciences, Northeastern State University:

"Northeastern State University would like to than the management of Blancaneaux Lodge for their kind help in establishing our jaguar research project in the Elijio Panti National Park. Blancaneaux Lodge's Conservation Officer Roni Martinez helped with expertise and logistics and I enjoyed the kind hospitality offered by Anne Wood and her team at the lodge. We're excited by this new conservation partnership and look forward to sharing the data from our camera traps with Blancaneaux Lodge and Dr. Marcella Kelly's on-going lx Jaguar project."

 

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