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Green Globe Travel was impressed when they visited the Green Iguana Conservation Project. They put together a cool little video of the experience, and you'll see how the veterinarians clean the iguanas. "We met up with our guide, Humberto Requena, for a tour of the facility at Belize’s San Ignacio Resort Hotel. The Project was co-founded back in 1996 by Mariam Roberson and Daniel Velasquez as a way to protect the species, which was suffering a population loss due to overhunting." 
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The San Ignacio Resort Hotel just got a superb review from the Ambergris Today. It highlights the beauty of the hotel, and the quality and teamwork of its staff. It's obvious why they won the Belize Tourism Board's 'Hotel of the Year' award. Humberto and the Green Iguana Conservation Project get praise too, of course. Jose Luis Zapata got some great pictures.
"Nestled in the heart of the Cayo District you will find one of Belize’s oldest and finest premier resort, The San Ignacio Resort Hotel. This resort boasts first class amenities and accommodations for locals and international visitors seeking to relax or explore our beautiful Belize. Upon our arrival at the hotel we were greeted with the warmest of smiles from of one the friendliest front desk receptionist, Amaris Wakefield; she immediately made us feel at home...
A huge part that makes your stay at the resort is the staff’s professional and friendly service. Through the very enlightening encounters with their staff you can learn how knowledgeable Humberto Requena is about the Green Iguana Project (you get big smiles from him all the time), how attentive to details and serviceable waiter/bartender Ragner Smith and Food & Beverage Manager Fiona Rudon are, how Daryll Leslie from maintenance is willing to help out any of his coworkers and even the guests in anything possible and how Head Chef of the Running W Restaurant Estella Vellicillo has over 13 years experience in the culinary field."
Jenny Phung's curator insight,
October 7, 2014 12:25 AM
With only 24 rooms in the hotel, including a master suite, regal rooms, deluxe balcony and garden view rooms, spa suite and also the pool with the view of lush rainforest, San Ignacio Resort Hotel attracts the customers by their professional and friendly staffs that bring the perfectly services in each rooms. The staffs work and treat each other like a family so they have created a friendly working environment. More than that, the rooms are always bright by coloured painting of local artists and each room provide the private balcony with the overlooking pool and jungle canopy and full of amenities like cable television, telephone, wifi, ceiling fan, air conditioning, in room safe, spacious walk in shower and hair dryer. Moreover, the hotel also makes their customers feel like home by the personalized letters to welcome and detailed gift for each night of their stay. The staffs always have the interaction with the customers and in charge of keeping the room perfectly clean. Furthermore, the San Ignacio Resort and Hotel also has hosted many graduations, weddings, concerts, and parties and offered the educational tour which helped the students understand the importance of protection and conservation of the green iguanas. This resort and hotel is recommend by the previous customers.
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The Iguana Hatchery is highlighted in this video. Humberto Requena describes the SIRH Iguana Project, and introduces the iguanas - he's famous.
"Roni hangs out with Gomez and Roxy, two iguanas from San Ignacio Resort's Iguana Project."
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Matthew Valdovinos, one of the NMSU film school students that did the Belize study abroad documentary film course, has released the documentary about the Green Iguana Conservation Project. It starts out with Humberto Requena and Eddy Estrada defining what the project does. Interesting fact: the San Ignacio Resort Hotel has been able to raise the survival rate from around 6% to around 60% in the hatchery.
Daniel Velazquez, one of the cofounders of the project explains how the project is sustainable, so it will stand the test of time, and shows some footage from the project in 1999. The documentary also has interviews with Miriam Roberson and the Belize Wildlife Referral Clinic's Dr. Isabelle Paquet Durand, and if you ever wanted to know how to clean an iguana, you can learn it by watching. This video is well worth the watch.
On Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/77741424
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The Green Iguana Conservation Project, listed as number 1 on things to do in San Ignacio on Trip Advisor, is going strong. Humberto Requena really is the iguana whisperer. You'll get a quick medicinal trail tour on the way there, and you'll be able to taste the termites. Thanks go out to the San Ignacio Resort Hotel for creating a project that does so much for the endangered green iguana.
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