“She can come back to Belize with the knowledge to help our ... Clare gazes up at a giant mahogany tree that’s about 250 years old. The tree is a towering mahogany, 75 feet tall, as wide ...

Cuban mahogany, Swietenia mahogani (genus and species names), the Wood of Kings, has been among the most prized and valuable timbers since the late 16th century. This mahogany species is the wood ...

We pull into what I presume is some sort of parking area with a calming sense of relief and follow our guide down a track surrounded by Belize's national mahogany trees - further into Chiquibul.

In Central America, Belize is known ... made up of younger trees and shrubs, but eventually, we reach what Kay wants us to see... MARIN: Ooh, wow. DANIEL: ...A towering mahogany, 75-feet tall ...

This year, Belize’s lantern features the national bird, the keel-billed toucan, and the national tree, the mahogany tree, Pitts said. The bird is also known as the sulfur-breasted toucan or ...

The story begins in 1965, deep in the jungle of what was then British Honduras and is now Belize. A group of loggers scouting for timber came across an ancient mahogany tree. The Smithsonian ...

Mahogany is not the only valuable tree in the rainforest, of course. A wide variety of equally valuable rosewoods grow throughout the world’s tropical regions, for example, and most are endangered.