Visitors' Center
Expected face liftBay Islands Environmental Management Project is planning a face-lift for the Visitors’ Center. The facade will be made more attractive to visitors, the ground floor will be divided into an exhibition hall, small library and a small meeting room, the upper floor will be divided into BICA offices, and an additional small building will be built in the back to host volunteers and visiting scientists. The work is expected to start in the middle of 2009. |
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The Visitors’ Center has been given to Utila by the Project for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, to be used as an information center on Utila’s environment, particularly the Turtle Harbour Wildlife Refuge and Marine Reserve. Since its opening in 2003, the Center has hosted numerous exhibitions, workshops and conferences, has been a movie house for Utila school children who learned about their environment by watching environmental movies and videos. It is also used as a community meeting center. Its permanent exhibition provides pictures of Utila’s varied ecosystems, from reefs to mangroves, forests, beaches, grasses and iron shore. The upper floor of the Center has a dormitory for volunteers, students and researchers. The Center also provides offices for BICA and has a small shop selling t-shirts, hats, maps and videos. |
 
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