The Association of Forest Communities of Petén (ACOFOP) and the Selva Maya Program of the German Cooperation (GIZ); supported an exchange of experiences between expert chicleros, young chicleros and newcomer chicleros from December 17-19.
Yearly Archives: 2019
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In the peacebuilding process which is derived from the agreement between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC),
Agua Clara Ciudadanos por Bacalar A.C., in collaboration with the German Cooperation for Sustainable Development (GIZ), coordinated the first bi-national meeting on water quality monitoring of the Lake Petén-Itzá (Guatemala) and Bacalar Lagoon (Mexico) on November 19 and 20, 2019.
Celebrate Urban Birds is an alternative for participatory science and research, founded in 2007 at Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology. The goal is to link people, regardless of age, with nature, particularly with bird watching. It does not require a great deal of knowledge of birds to be integrated.
The Inter-institutional Platform for Sustainable Cattle Ranching promotes capacity building for livestock committees in the communities of El Caoba and El Remate in Petén, Guatemala.
At the end of 2019, the Protection and Sustainable Use of the Selva Maya Project will complete its activities.
Continuity in the work of the Operative Coordination Group (GOC), contributes to regional environmental governance.
Imagine a web platform where any person, scientist or citizen, with an interest in biological diversity, can interact and share photos and data of plants and animals; a social network for nature lovers…
Some will think that environmental conservation has little relation to social communication. However, when impacts such as ecosystem degradation occur rapidly, there are often no effort or resources to address that. This is why, those of us who live in the Selva Maya should be concerned and involved in such […]
On September 25, 2019, the annual Workshop of the Regional Group for the monitoring of water bodies and associated fauna in the Selva Maya (MASM) was held in Flores, Guatemala.
For the fourth time, on August 4, the National Day of Calakmul was celebrated, a site recognized by UNESCO as Mixed Cultural and Natural World Heritage, unique in Mexico in this category.