The Nature Conservancy is working with Honduras' leading environmental organizations to protect the country's rich terrestrial and marine biodiversity, from the mountain forests surrounding Lake Yojoa to the vast rainforests of the Mosquitia.
The 2 million acre Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve in the Honduran Mosquitia was recognized as Central America's first Biosphere Reserve in 1980 by the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization (UNESCO). In 1982, UNESCO also named Rio Platano as a World Heritage Site.
407 bird species have been recorded in the Lago Yojoa Region - representing more than half the bird species found in Honduras.
The Bay Islands of Honduras are an extension of the Meso-American barrier reef which stretches north to Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
About Honduras
In Honduras, the Conservancy is making a foray into pine and oak forests to preserve this precious and underconserved habitat.
