About 18 acres of Baboon Community Reserve, located 20 miles northwest of Belize, is one of Belize's most successful ecotourism stories. Founded in 1985, the reserve was created by the community when the landowners of seven of the nine villages that make up the Belize River Valley community decided to maintain a habitat and environment to ensure the healthy offspring of the Black Howler Monkeys, locally known as “baboons.” The success of the reserve was made possible to a greater extent thanks to the efforts of seven of the surrounding villages under the leadership of the Women's Organization for the Conservation of Nature (WCG), which has managed the reserve since 1988. The main inhabitants of the reserve are a group of black howler monkeys, which is typical for these monkeys to gather in groups of 4-12 individuals with a dominant male, leader. Monkeys - vegetarians - eat leaves, flowers and fruits and move among the treetops and through fences and barriers to eat delicious leaves and fruits in the treetops that landowners keep on their plots specifically for them.