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(October 14, 2025)   -   In terms of feeding behavior, spinner dolphins feed at night on small fish, shrimp, and squid found between 200 and 300 meters below the water’s surface.

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(October 11, 2025)   -   Over the past two years, we have seen major progress in local techniques and capacities to study migratory birds in Guatemala’s Maya Forest, as well as new collaborations between the communities connected by these birds.

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(October 03, 2025)   -   An art exhibition highlighting the importance of migratory shorebirds along Guatemala’s Pacific coast opened on October 3 at the Natural History Museum of the University of San Carlos (USAC). 

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(October 02, 2025)   -   In this interview with ConCriterio, our colleague Rony García-Anleu, Director of Biological Research at WCS Guatemala, explains how long-term biological monitoring in the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) has become an essential strategy to understand and protect jaguars and other species.

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(October 01, 2025)   -   On September 10, 2025, the National Forest Institute (INAB) notified the Association of Environmental Fishermen (ASOPARMA) that their application for Forest Incentives to protect more than 20 hectares of mangroves had been approved. 

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(September 23, 2025)   -   The San José Canyon, located in the Pacific of Guatemala, is a site of great ecological importance as it is home to various species of marine mammals, birds, bony fish, sharks, and rays. One of the species that can be observed is the spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris), found in groups ranging from hundreds to thousands of individuals.

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(September 22, 2025)   -   In Wuarska, one of the most remote corners of the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve (RHBRP), a team of specialists and community members recorded 24 species of amphibians and reptiles during a research expedition that involved hours of river navigation and hikes through rugged terrain in this region of eastern Honduras. 

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(September 09, 2025)   -   We congratulate the governments of Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize on the historic announcement to protect and restore the largest continuous forest in Mesoamerica.

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(September 05, 2025)   -   On the occasion of the International Day of Indigenous Women, the work of the group “Nuevo Amanecer”, made up of Garífuna women from Honduras’ Moskitia, is recognized.

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(August 28, 2025)   -   The communities of Mavita and Rus Rus, in Honduras’ Moskitia region, now have cargo motorcycles (also known locally as mototrocos) that will strengthen the work of community rangers in monitoring and protecting the forest. 

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