The Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center receives over 68,000 visitors annually, with 15,000 being students, teachers, and parents.

Keeping to its goal of bringing visitors closer to Belize's natural heritage, the zoo only houses native animals.

Other mammals include white-tailed deer, red brocket deer, collared peccaries, white-lipped peccaries, Yucatan spider monkeys, black howler monkeys, Central American agoutis, lowland paca, gray foxes, neotropical otters, coatimundi, kinkajous and tayras.

Birds at the zoo include scarlet macaws, red-lored amazons, yellow-headed amazons, keel-billed toucans, jabiru, harpy eagles, king vultures, great black hawks, ornate hawk-eagles, barn owls, mottled owls, crested guans and great curassows.

The animals on the tour include the tapirs, jaguars, margays, kinkajous, crocodiles, peccaries and howler monkeys.

[4] The Belize Zoo is headquarters for the Tapir Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

A "Problem Jaguar" had repeatedly preyed upon livestock or domestic animals and are almost always older, injured, or sick, and thus unable to compete with other healthy individuals for food and territory.