About us
The Corozal Sustainable Future Initiative (CSFI) is a Belizean not-for-profit NGO, duly registered and audited. It is neutral and non-political and considers itself a support system for the conservation of Belize's natural diversity. Our board is composed of both leading Belizean and foreign conservationists by trade or at heart. Our philosophy is to remain at all times a strictly field-based organization. Our conservation efforts aim to preserve representative habitats of high conservation value and their fauna and flora, in a context where these now disappear rapidly. This is achieved by providing effective surveillance to CSFI’s protected areas held in trust for the benefit of the People and Government of Belize (and included in the National Protected Areas System of Belize), or through the co-management of official protected areas of the Government of Belize, in collaboration with the authorities. In parallel, efforts are continuously made to ensure the connection of key habitats with other natural systems of Belize, through the creation of biological corridors. Conservation is not only about animals. Over the past few years, much effort was invested into understanding and mapping CSFI’s forests, while analyzing their current state. In the process, CSFI was able to find the last mother trees of Mahogany within the former Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve, now encompassed in the Northern Biological Corridor. It produced thousands of seedlings that were replanted in natural clearings and illegally opened fields. Our end goal is to make sure that the genetic pool of local Mahoganies and other hardwood species continues to thrive, and that CSFI’s forests in effect become the seed bank of North-eastern Belize.
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