Tourism to the Lamanai Outpost jungle lodge, in the wild heart of Belize, helps fund the Lamanai Field Research Center (LFRC) -- a not-for-profit venture established in 1992 to promote sustainable land use and tourism in the Central American country.

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Gifford was thrilled with the film version of Wild at Heart.

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Having grown up on the farm where the series, along with its British predecessor Wild at Heart, is filmed, he knows not only the space but also, and more important, the 60-plus animals that call it home.

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In general, trails are well-maintained and signed, and almost always give a palpable sense that you are in the heart of something rugged and wild.

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Panelists included writers Richard Price (whose novel Clockers was turned into a film by Spike Lee), Barry Gifford (who wrote Wild at Heart, adapted to the screen by David Lynch), Philippe Dijan ( Betty Blue) and Jean-Philippe Toussaint ( Running Away), who is, in addition to a novelist, an experimental filmmaker.

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C. (clearly the heart of the picture, with a wild beat), and so on, eastward, all the way to an elephant-infested India.

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This is what I do, this was as close to the wild core of me as I could ever hope to get: I follow the compass of my heart, venturing off the map, making connections, asking questions, going deeper, trying to penetrate the essence of a place so that I can understand it better and bring back precious pieces to share.

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Wild success and heart-breaking failure are the order of the day.

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There are few experiences more thrilling than tracking and capturing a wild crocodile in the dead of night, on a river in the heart of the Central American jungle.

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