About Us

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We are a botanic garden, Belize Botanic Gardens or BBG to be exact. BBG is 45 acres of native and exotic plants growing in the Cayo district of western Belize. The garden is in a valley on the banks of the Macal River, surrounded by the Maya Mountain foothills.

Modestly speaking we offer you beautiful plants in a beautiful place, but we're oh! so much more. Our main work is encouraging sustainable agriculture, maintaining conservation collections and engaging in conservation education. We aim to inspire our community and visitors (this could be you!) to protect our leafy friends and their habitats by learning more about the wonderful world of plants.

To do all this we have a mere 8 full time employees. That means each of us has about 10 jobs, (sometimes eleven). It's a lot of work but it is worthwhile. If you're interested you can see photos of our, I think you'll agree, exceptionally attractive staff.

If you want to know how BBG got started then read our history.