Sustainable Tourism Practices
- Eighty five percent of our electricity is provided by solar power and refrain from using high electricity drawing appliances such as: coffee makers, microwave ovens, hair dryers and air conditioning.
- We use low light fluorescent bulbs and reduce light pollution which affects birds’ migration and nocturnal animals’ patterns.
- Hiring Belizean staff and provide training in the Tourism Industry.
- Helping create cottage industry in furniture making and marketing mostly Belizean made products in our giftshop.
- Growing our own fresh organic fruits and vegetables seasonal.
- Free range chickens producing our own fresh organic eggs.
- Purchasing of locally made food, beverages, cleaning products, locally grown fruits and vegetables when possible and practical.
- Composting organic waste.
- Supplying potable water.
- Recycling all glass bottles and plastic bottles when possible and purchasing products with the least packaging possible.
- Utilizing cloth napkins rather than paper for dining services.
- Utilizing renewable resources, training staff in sustainable cutting of leaves, sticks for roofings and replanting indigenous hardwoods.
- Using biodegradable laundry detergents and limiting water waste.
- Limiting amount of biodegradable pesticides used on premises.
- Aiding community in waste management.
- Placing all septic at a strategic distance from the river to assure no leaching.
- Maintaining the major portion of the property natural to insure wildlife habitat and leaving corridor to allow wildlife passage to the river.
- Gravity fed showers are a huge part of our water conservation efforts.
