After years of caring for their forests, recognition arrives for the communities of Petén, Guatemala
Dawn hasn’t fully lifted over San Andrés, in Guatemala’s Petén department, when Erico Fernando Chi Lainez is already moving through the day’s checklist — calls to make, food to pack, gear to test. As president and legal representative of the Asociación Forestal Integral San Andrés (AFISAP) and a community leader from the Nueva Juventud neighborhood, […]
Guardians of Mesoamerican Forest speak about carbon market
Representatives of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities of Mesoamerica create a regional meeting to discuss how to protect their rights in the face of the boom of the carbon market. The carbon market is booming: A huge number of international companies have flooded the Mesoamerican territories in a race to secure the purchase of carbon […]
