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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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(August 13, 2025)   -   🦔 Today, August 13, we celebrate International Armadillo Day to raise awareness about the need to protect this species and many others that suffer the consequences of road development without environmental planning. 

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(August 13, 2025)   -   In the restoration area “La Pailita”, within the Cruce a La Colorada Management Unit in the Multiple Use Zone, Mr. Luciano Aldana is one of 43 beneficiaries of the Agroforestry Systems (SAF) project. Here, former pastures used for illegal cattle ranching — previously covered only with grass — have been transformed into productive land where milpas grow alongside trees. 

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(August 05, 2025)   -   Trap camera monitoring has detected New World screwworm infestations in wild animals. In April 2025, in Mirador-Río Azul National Park and the Naachtún-Dos Lagunas Biotope in Guatemala, we captured evidence of a puma (Puma concolor) likely infested with this parasite. This sighting occurred just seven months after the first reported case in domestic animals in the country. 

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