The Maya Forest Aguada Project is a new community ran camera trapping study aiming at understanding the relative importance of water to wildlife communities in the Greater Belize Maya Forest. "Aguadas" are simply just waterholes and can be found in the GBMF as natural or artificial. Prolonged droughts due to aggressive climatic shifts have put strain on willdife forcing species to search and congregate for water sources. Placing camera traps allows us to see which species arrive at the aguadas, whos dominant, is there more comeptition? Managing wildlife populations sometimes requires intervention to give resoucres like water. the BMFT is looking to address this issue by placing and periodically filling artificial "bebederos" or water tanks.
