Belize Lodge Research Initiatives

Living and Learning at Belize Lodge - Cats, Bats and Rats.

Belize Lodge is dedicated to environmental sustainability and being responsible stewards of our fragile forest eco-system. We also support forward looking initiatives and the knowledge based action that comes as a result of the research that Belize Lodge supports and sponsors.

Professors, researchers and grad students come to do research on the incredible variety of unique wildlife and habitats that are protected within the borders of the BLE properties and the Boden Creek Ecological Reserve.

Read about the current research initiatives under way at Belize Lodge and the people behind them.

Current Projects

	Small Mammal Diversity Tom Risch,( Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Arkansas State University) has been working with Belize Lodge & Excursions sampling the small mammal diversity of the Boden Creek Ecological Preserve (BCEP). In particular he is working with native rats and opossums.
	Ecological Assesments Husband and wife team Carolyn and Bruce Miller (Virginia Polytechnical University) have been living and working in Belize for over 20 years. During that time Bruce has specialized in bats and Carilyn has been working with "camera -trapping" the larger cats of the local rainforest.
	Habitat Change Rex E. Medlin Jr. is focusing on the responses to habitat change by the local bat populations. Rex is also working in partnership with Tom Risch in studying the small mammal populations.