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         <title>Rapid Response Facility grant for conservation group to benefit Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Rapid Response Facility (RRF) has awarded Belizean conservation group Wildtracks with a grant to assess proposed dredging and mangrove clearance within Corozal Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, affecting what may be the only breeding location for the critically endangered smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) in Belize.
Corozal Bay and the adjacent Bacalar Chico Marine Reserve, which forms part of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (BBRRS), a UNESCO natural World Heritage site; are known as  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/600</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Belize Conservation NGO Receives Rapid Response Facility Grant in Support of the Belize Barrier Reef System</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The latest World Heritage site to benefit from the Rapid Response Facility (RRF) is the Belize Barrier Reef System (BBRS).&amp;nbsp; Recognized in large part for its extensive coral reef and mangrove ecosystems, this property is particularly vulnerable to siltation of the clear tropical waters on which it depends.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The RRF was approached by the Ya&apos;axch&amp;eacute; Conservation Trust (YCT), reporting that unauthorized prospection work for a possible hydro-electric dam had been carried out  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/581</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System and Colombia&apos;s Los Katios National Park enter UNESCO&apos;s Danger List</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The World Heritage Committee meeting in Seville, under the chair of Mar&amp;iacute;a Jes&amp;uacute;s San Segundo, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, has decided to inscribe Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System and Colombia&apos;s Los Katios National Park on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
The main problem with Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System concerns mangrove cutting and excessive development in the property which was inscribed in 1996 as largest barrier reef in the northern  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/530</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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