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BELIZE
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ASKS
MARINERS TO BEWARE OF THIEVES
The Belize Coast Guard is
asking all mariners to secure their
vessels as vessel theft is on the increase. Just yesterday they
recovered a stolen vessel in the Turneffe Atolls. Love News spoke with
Operations Officer at the National Coast Guard Lieutenant Gregory
Soberanis.
Lieutenant Gregory Soberanis; Operations Officer, National Coast Guard “The patrol at Calabash Caye was deployed to the site where the vessel was sighted. We found a vessel belonging to Belize Academy of Diving. All navigation equipment was removed from the vessel and all mechanical equipment was removed from the vessel. The vessel was stolen about a month ago. It was towed and secured at safe harbour. It is important for mariners to be aware that vessel theft is on the increase. Over the past few months we have seen an increase in vessel theft. There are two to three incidents per month so mariners be aware, vessel owners be aware ensure that your vessel is properly secured. If you can put it on trailers that would be excellent. If it must remain in water then maintain security watch for your vessel especially at night.” Soberanis says that perpetrators often strike between 12 midnight and 6 in the morning. LoveFM Mesoamerican Reef
2010 report; Coral reefs in danger
Coral reefs are in danger;
that is the weighty message coming out of a reef summit which is
ongoing in Belize City. In fact according to the 2010 report card of
the Mesoamerican Reef, released today, an alarming percentage of the
reef is not in good shape. The summit precedes the 2010 United Nations
Climate Change Conference to be held in Cancún, Mexico, from
twenty-ninth November to tenth December 2010 where the hope is that the
global community will reach agreement on global warming.
 Belize still holds bragging
rights for having the longest
living
barrier reef in the world. But our reef is in danger. Marine biologists
are tackling the most pressing issues in the three day Reef Summit 2010.
 “We started last night at the Bliss with the launch of this film called Someday is now. It calls to action voices of Belizean people talking about their coastal resources and the need for planning. So that is a campaign that will be launched in January. Tomorrow’s event is this aerial art event using humans on Sergeant’s Caye to spell out a message to the world. It’s going to be broadcast on the international media and it will be presented and this Conference of Parties.” Agencies from across the region were represented at a symposium held today to discuss the Mesoamerican Reef, which spans from the northern end of Mexico, along the Caribbean coasts of Belize and Guatemala, to northern Honduras. 
Dr. Melanie Mcfield
“Today we’re talking about the status of the reef. I’ll be launching the report card shortly. We have presentations from people from around the region talking about a variety of different projects, kind of just giving an update of a lot of the conservation actions that are going on. So we’re thinking national and regional, beginning to look to the global because we’re also looking at some of the impacts of global climate change on the reef. We’re doing many good management measures throughout the region, trying to improve the situation. We recognize the reef is in trouble. We have done a number of steps that are applaudable— we want to give credit to the countries for doing these things. At the same time we need to make a call to the global community who’s meeting in two weeks in Cancun for the big Conference of Parties Climate Change summit and they need to step up to the plate and come up with a real treaty that will help protect from climate change because the oceans are gonna go quickly, reefs are going to be the first.”  But according to Dr. Melanie
McField, the 2008 to 2010 report card on the status of the reef is
mostly bad news.
Dr. Melanie McField “From 2008 to 2010, the changes that we’ve seen are vast majority declines. One of the most stunning things is the amount of reef that’s now in critical condition; it’s about thirty percent whereas the last report card it was about six percent. So that block of the red zone, there’s another forty percent now that was found to be in poor condition so that’s a block of seventy percent that’s in the bad category. That’s really bad news. The good news we have one percent very good, last time we didn’t have any. And we have about the same amount—we have eight percent now in good condition.”  McField says protected areas
and legislation to protect rare fish
species have helped keep parts of the reef that in good condition.
CH5 NOTICES
&LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR The South
Ambergris Caye Neighborhood Watch is gearing up for the
island's busy season with a neighborhood clean up! All south end residents and theirfamilies are encouraged to participate in sweeping our neighborhood clean of trash and debris on roads, the beach and empty lots. The clean up will take place on Sunday November 14. We will meet at the water tower at 7:30am to divide into groups to tackle different sections. Please bring bug spray, work gloves, and whatever tools you may need such as rakes, machetes and shovels. The SACNW will provide cold water and garbage bags.Clean-ups generally only take a couple hours and the more people who help out the faster it will be. The SACNW invites all neighborhoods to get involved in organized clean ups and showing our visitors just how Bonita our island can be!
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