"Development of Revenue Generation Systems to Ensure Tropical Forest Protection and Management in Belize" by Belize Audubon Society (1996)

Objectives:

The project will contribute to the following:

• The building up of Belize Audobon Society's capacities to generate revenue through the institution of fees and charges, membership development and sales, promotion abroad/marketing, and consultancy systems;
• The development and implementation of protected area cost recovery schemes;
• The development and implementation of financing strategies to ensure the integrity and maintain the ecological functions of six representative samples of Belizean forest ecosystems;
• The promotion of community development programmes that benefit local people to secure the biological integrity of six protected areas

Results:

• Belize Audobon Society's (BAS) revenue generation capacities built up that, after the project has been completed, BAS is able to pay 50% of all protected area-related salaries through its fully operational income generating schemes.
• The management presence at the protected areas augmented (including the establishment of a first ever management presence at Half Moon Caye Natural Monument).
• Foreign membership levels and sales increased.
• As called for by the BAS/GOB management agreement, detailed and comprehensive Protected Area Management Plans completed in 1997 and their implementation initiated in 1998.
• Increase in the numbers of community support groups (such as women’s groups and BAS chapters) for the protected areas and BAS.
• Increase in the numbers of visitors to and the amount of tourism income generated at the protected areas, in line with the areas’ carrying capacity.