Mayas's Forest

The Maya Forest is a tri-national jewel spanning parts of Guatemala, Mexico and Belize, and it is the New World's largest remaining block of tropical rainforest outside of the Amazon basin. In the heart of this forest, tucked away in a northern corner of Guatemala, lies the 500,000-acre Sierra del Lacandón National Park. As Guatemala's second largest national park, it is home to many endangered species and some of the largest tracts of pristine rainforest in the country.

It is also home to indigenous groups that have practiced small-scale farming and fishing in rivers and lakes in harmony with nature for decades. Beekeeping is another traditional Mayan activity that has been gentle to the forest.

Yet, despite its national park status and the forest-friendly traditional practices of indigenous peoples, pressures in the Sierra del Lacandón have come from a rapidly growing human population along with poorly practiced ranching, agricultural activities encroaching on the forest and excessive timber extraction. All of these pressures demand determined conservation action to preserve the area’s natural resources for future generations.

Take care of the forests.


Take care of the forests as they are part of the beauty of our country and as citizens of this country we have the obligation to ensure good and so achieve a change which will help us to get together as a nation and exploiting the resources we have, small Guatemala is beautiful.

GUATEMALA ENVIRONMENT

Much of Guatemala’s population is centered within the hilly valleys in and around its capital, Guatemala City, and its neighboring mountainous highlands, leaving its northern highlands and southern coastal areas sparsely populated. The country’s 14 ecoregions include mangrove forests, wetlands, lakes, lagoons, rivers and swamps. Almost 7 percent of its 1,200-plus animals species and 13.5 percent of its 8,000-plus plant species are endemic — and some of those are threatened.