Declaration of biological corridors

The Minister shall declare any area of public or private land as a marine or terrestrial biological corridor being a type of special management area, for the purpose of either– (a) linking the primary forest nodes within the (b) protecting hydro-ecological as riparian corridors; (c) terrestrial and marine trans boundary linkages the wider regional connectivity framework; or (d) fulfilling Belize’s regional commitment in maintaining forest connectivity as part of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, and its international commitment as a signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity: