The rain arrived yesterday, and it literally poured down all day! The crocodile pond extended onto the path which was quite amusing as we half expected there to be a crocodile sitting on the path waiting for us as we walked down to dinner. We spent the morning hanging around waiting for Becci to arrive. When she arrived she explained ran through what happens if we catch an animal in one of the traps. The animal has to be sedated to attach the collar and given...

Very sad news today, Paca 44 which we've been tracking has died. The people out day tracking came back to say that the signal had become a lot faster which means that the collar hasn't moved in 12 hours, suggesting that the Paca is dead. Bart drove down and we took some radio recievers out to track it down and retrieve the collar. Found it dead inside its burrow. Sow we now only have one Paca to radio track, but we should be opening more traps tomorrow so hopef...

Very sad news today, Paca 44 which we've been tracking has died. The people out day tracking came back to say that the signal had become a lot faster which means that the collar hasn't moved in 12 hours, suggesting that the Paca is dead. Bart drove down and we took some radio recievers out to track it down and retrieve the collar. Found it dead inside its burrow. Sow we now only have one Paca to radio track, but we should be opening more traps tomorrow so hopef...

We met the Belizian deputy prime minister today! But I'll get to that in a bit.... Yesterday me and Sophie headed off to Big falls to move some camera traps around, they get moved around the transect each week. The jungle was ridiculously humid and mossie infested and we weren't actually very much help. The ground is really uneven and because it's been raining a lot, there are some very large puddles which are surprisingly deep! Arturo and Mitch manage to le...

We had a day off today, so decided to visit the zoo as the other half of the group had been on saturday when we were helping cut transects. The zoo is fairly small and only has native animals which have all been rescued, confiscated or rehabilitated and so none are caught from the wild. Because they're all native animals the enclosures are just fenced off areas of the natural environment. When we arrived we were greeted by one of the zoo keepers who asked us i...