Our Team

David Lugo began his adventure in Belize as a field technician on the Ix Jaguar Project in 2018. David’s strong passion for wildlife research and exploration immediately hooked him on the naturalistic wonder that the forests and wildlife of Belize hold. Af...

Darby McPhail started her journey in Belize in 2016 on the Ix Jaguar Project as a field technician. She immediately fell in love with the jungles of Belize and the communities in which she worked. She continued working on the project and became a long-term...

Dr. Marcella Kelly started working in Belize in the late 1990s as a graduate student studying mammals. She was one of the first to study the small mammals of Belize using Sherman traps to capture and record the unknown and elusive species present. She then...

Elma Kay, born in Corozal, Belize started her journey in the world of conservation as a young adult choosing to study science in high school. A pioneer for women in science, she was one of six women out of 30 students in her class that graduated to continu...

Johny Tzib from Bullet Tree, Belize has an impressive history in wokring for multiple conservtaion NGOs including the Belize Audubon Society, Friends for Conservation and Development, Yalbac Ranch, and many more. With his extensive applied conservation pra...