Trail Cameras at Runaway Creek

Your donations of $926.91 to the Foundation for Wildlife Conservation, Inc. (FWC) were used to purchase nine trail cameras.

In March 2018, the trail cameras were installed in the 6,175-acre Runaway Creek Nature Reserve (RCNR), which is owned and managed by the Foundation for Wildlife Conservation (FWC) and is a critical part of the Central Belize Wildlife Corridor. The trail cameras provide a non-invasive research method to study the abundance, movement patterns, and variety of wildlife in specific areas and the information collected aids in conservation planning. The cameras are checked once to twice per month.

The cameras are providing valuable information about the wildlife using the RCNR.

To date, the cameras have detected:

• All five cat species found in Belize (jaguar, puma, ocelot, jaguarundi and margay)

• Two deer species (white-tailed and red-brocket)

• Mammals such as collared peccaries, tapir, tayra, skunk, paca, agouti, fruit bats, nine-banded armadillo, coatimundi, gray fox, several species of opossums, and an ant-eater

• About 10 species of birds that usually walk the forest floor

  • Some of the birds detected include the great curassow, crested guan, tinamou and mottled owl

Check out some of the pictures from the trail cameras below!