Homesteads dotting a pastoral landscape, families living by lamplight and men in straw hats riding horse-drawn carriages – the scenes in Jake Michaels’ photographs could easily depict bygone times in ...

A stretch of rainforest in Belize that allows wildlife to pass freely between protected areas is under threat of deforestation, and conservationists are scrambling to contain the damage. Mennonites, a ...

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The former British colony is much more than beaches and blue skies. Sameer Rahim visits a Mennonite community which has shunned contemporary living. Meeting the Mennonites: horse-drawn carts remains ...

When Mennonites began moving to Belize in the late 1950s, they did so for the same reason their ancestors have migrated for centuries: to live in line with their religious beliefs, including the ...

Mennonites in Belize own thousands of hectares of rainforest that make up part of a “biological corridor” for wildlife moving between numerous protected areas. The Mennonites started clearing the ...