The purpose of this Management Plan is to define straightforward and sustainable strategies and subsequent actions intended to upgrade the functioning of the Marine and Forest Reserves to a thriving and sustainable level for a period of five years, with a clear intention of managing the Protected Areas of Caye Caulker in perpetuity. Clearly the Forest and Marine Reserves were conceived to function as a single unit comprising a representative section of coastal zone habitats of the Northern Shelf Lagoon. The Caye Caulker Marine Reserve was declared under Statutory Instrument (S.I.) No. 35 of 1998, first gazetted on the 25th of April 1998. The Forest Reserve was gazetted on the 4th of April 1998, in Statutory Instruments No. 28 of 1998. Perimeter GPS points appear in the SI.