Five Blues Lake National Park (FBLNP) is located a few miles off the village of St Margaret located on the Hummingbird Highway in the Cayo district. It is a unique portion of the Sibun karst that includes a five acre karst lake that has undergone a series of collapse and recoveries, a collapsed cavern maze, several cenotes, limestone based streams that can be floated in tubes, a network of trails through moist tropical forests and other features still being discovered. It is a 4,000 acre national park.
The Park became dormant when the water from the lake had virtually disappeared. The lake later re-appeared and in 2019, the Hummingbird Environmental Tour Guides Association (HETA) approached the Forest Department and later GEF SGP concerning taking over co-management of the Park. Financing was approved by GEF SGP and in July 2020, the Belize Enterprise for Sustainable Technology (BEST) signed an agreement accepting to serve as the partner with HETA for the approved project with GEF SGP.
The approved project entailed rehabilitating access road to the park, rebuilding outhouses, upgrading the trail system and promoting the Park. This new proposal is intended as a complementing project and will focus on the strengthening of HETA, ensuring that it can improve its management of the Park and sustainability of the organization and protected area.