Our Principles

We live in a time of an accelerated climate crisis which is reducing total global biodiversity, leading to irreversible consequences for life on earth that includes human species as well.

Our vision is to connect people, landscapes, and wildlife in Belize and the world through coexistence. To accomplish our mission, we strive and work to provide the research that leads to policy decisions to protect and restore biodiversity, the integral network that structures the natural world.

We promote, celebrate, and respect diversity in nature and among the people, partners, stakeholders, and communities whom we work with on the ground in Belize. Across the group that is made up of diverse cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds that represents CWC, we are a cooperative to achieve one mission, one brand, and one common set of values:

• Integrity: We enact and live the principles we call on partners, communities, and institutions to meet. We perform our work with integrity, accountability and transparency, and rely on facts and science to teach us and promote evolution in our conservation work.
• Respect: We respect the voices and knowledge of the people, partners, stakeholder, institutions and communities that we work alongside, while providing the support and change to strengthen their rights to a sustainable future with wildlife.
• Collaboration: We believe without the collaboration with the public and science communities, conservation missions are not possible, and is what we strive to do in all aspects of our work.