Environmental Threats
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Development: Aqua World

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- Development (2006-2011)
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Developments
Under Review
- Astera
- Chrysalis
- Yum Balisi
Approved/Built
- Coco Plum & Villas at Coco Plum
- Kokomo
- Laru Beya Marina
- Los Porticos Condos
- The Placencia Residential Subdivision
- The Placencia Hotel
Approved/Under Construction
- Aqua World Subdivsion
- Carlson Subdivison
- Christensen Subdivision
- Copal Beach
- Crimson Park
- Hatchet Caye Resort
- Las Brisas
- Manatee Bay Estates Subdivision
- Palmetto Bay
- Peninsula Club
- Placencia Marina
- Placencia North Airport
- Placencia Pointe
- Placencia Yacht Club
- Red Moon
- Rendezvous Caye
- The Placencia Resort
- Wild Orchid
Approved/Construction
Not Started
- Ara Macao
- False Caye
- Harvest Caye
- Panther Golf Course
- Villas at Placencia
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Dredging

Garbage
Ocean Acidification
Oil
Over-fishing
Sewage
Tourism
Water

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Industry Association

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Our Natural Heritage

Las Brisas

Update: no development has taken place after the land was filled, and the owner and the Belize government are in litigation over a portion of the property taken by the government as a nature reserve.

According to the Environmental Compliance Plan
(ECP), Aqua World will be a 10.83 acre "eco-tourism" residential subdivision development built on 7 acres of land created out of the Placencia Lagoon and approximately 3 acres of interior waterways.

Aqua World is owned, at least in part, by the family of Jose Coye, a former minister under the People's United Party.

The Aqua World ECP was approved in January 2008 and signed by Aqua World and the Department of the Environment on 4 July 2008.

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Placencia, Belize
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