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endemic species including several Yucatan birds, island lizards, several fishes, tunicates, and sponges, making it an area with one of the highest levels of marine biodiversity in the Atlantic. During our research in Belize, we travelled to Bacalar Chico National Park and Marine Reserve, Blue Hole Natural Monument, Half Moon Caye Natural Monument, Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve and Laughing Bird Caye National Park, and interviewed two dozen people. In all of those places the coral, we were
marine biodiversity, including coral reef destruction, have all occurred. ( UNESCO , 2006 ) We focus on these sorts of global concerns especially in Chapter 8 ’s discussion of the Global Anti-Golf Movement and protests that directly address the impacts of golf-related tourism around the world. Of course, it is not only activists and organizations such as UNESCO that have recognized the significance of golf’s heavy consumption of water. A key theme of this book is