Family Story
Long Caye at Lighthouse Reef is a family company. Our founder, “Big Jack,” was a rocket-scientist (really!) and a sailor/adventurer of the Caribbean. In 1967 he founded the company we are now in our third generation of working on Long Caye. Big Jack created an “Eco-Village” before anyone knew there was such a thing!
Our Mission
Conservation
We build conservation planning into development and economic planning, while also being aware of social goals. Without preserving the environmental asset, economic goals cannot be reached, and without economic development and dedication to social goals, conservation cannot be achieved.
Community
We have designed to maximize the value of the land, extending beyond economic return to encompass nature, culture, community and experience. Fundamental principles of resilience + sustainability foster a commitment to conservation and an understanding of the value of community.
Longevity
Purchased in 1967, our maxim is – “the land drives the plan.” Family in it’s 3rd generation in Belize with 40+ years of building long-term relationships – government, NGOs, community members
Stewardship
Majority of the Caye is permanently preserved, with the blessing and enforcement of the Belize Department of Environment. As a Steward, we look beyond the Caye itself to the surrounding waters of the Lighthouse Reef Atoll.
Blake Ross
Jackson Edwards III
Jackson Edwards III
Owner/Director
Jackson Edwards III
Jackson Edwards III
Jackson Edwards III
Owner/Director
Jim Cullinan
Jackson Edwards III
Jim Cullinan
Owner/Director
Eco Philosophy – Love your Reef
Long Caye at Lighthouse Reef is passionately committed to the preservation and protection of both Long Caye and its surrounding reef. As stewards of the atoll, we are a socially and fiscally responsible organization and we maintain our ecological standards and principals. We seek to demonstrate to the world the achievements possible when people, passion and technology team up with nature to create an extraordinary user experience and a sustainable success.
Our core philosophy has been based on a belief that to achieve sustainability, it is critical and necessary to build conservation planning into development and economic planning, while also being aware of social goals. Without preserving the environmental asset, economic stability goals cannot be reached, and without economic development and dedication to social goals, conservation cannot be achieved.
We are collaborative at the core. Multiple institutions (from Belize and abroad) have and will participate in basic, focused and ongoing climate change related research at the facility built on Long Caye, Lighthouse Reef. Through our presence and research activity, we hope to guide sustainable human activity for the entire atoll.
The "Lighthouse Model for Sustainability + Resiliency (tm)" is shown below.
Lighthouse Model for Resilience + Sustainability™
Our Mission
Conservation
We build conservation planning into development and economic planning, while also being aware of social goals. Without preserving the environmental asset, economic goals cannot be reached, and without economic development and dedication to social goals, conservation cannot be achieved.
Longevity
Purchased in 1967, our maxim is – “the land drives the plan.” Family in it’s 3rd generation in Belize with 40+ years of building long-term relationships – government, NGOs, community members
Community
We have designed to maximize the value of the land, extending beyond economic return to encompass nature, culture, community and experience. Fundamental principles of resilience + sustainability foster a commitment to conservation and an understanding of the value of community.
Stewardship
Majority of the Caye is permanently preserved, with the blessing and enforcement of the Belize Department of Environment. As a Steward, we look beyond the Caye itself to the surrounding waters of the Lighthouse Reef Atol