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Article: Belize's first national park protects rain forests. (Bladen National Park)
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- May 17, 1990
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BELIZE'S FIRST NATIONAL PARK PROTECTS RAIN FORESTS
WASHINGTON, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- An international group of environmental activists and pilots scored a major victory today in the struggle to protect tropical rain forests.
The government of Belize and Lighthawk (the air force of the environmental movement) announced the creation of the Bladen National Park in the southern mountains of the small Central American country. David Gibson, Belize's permanent secretary for the Ministry of Industry and Natural Resources, and Byron Swift, executive director of I.U.C.N., U.S., joined Michael Stewartt, Lighthawk's executive director, in making this ...