The Crocodile Research Coalition in Belize

Learn how the great great granddaughter of Pancho Villa's medicine woman is now saving the crocodiles in Belize. Dr. Marisa Tellez is the founder and Executive Director of the Crocodile Research Center in Belize. In this episode, Dr. Tellez and her colleague Darcy Ulez talks about the work at the CRC and their plans to build a wildlife clinic in Belize to protect the crocodiles and educate the local communities about the importance of crocodiles to the environment. Crocodiles are fascinating and very important to the environment. They were revered by the Maya who believed that the earth rested atop a huge crocodile. The Lamanai Maya ruins in Orange walk includes several crocodile motifs. Lamanai is the Maya word for "submerged crocodile."