Mexico, Belize and Guatemala create a trinational culture and nature corridor

Mexico, Guatemala and Belize person created an planetary country called the Great Maya Forest Biocultural Corridor, dedicated to protecting and preserving the biodiversity and taste practice of the region.

The corridor is the effect of a historic agreement betwixt the 2 Central American countries and Mexico, signed astatine the Gran Mundo Maya Calakmul edifice successful Campeche, the superior of the southeastern Mexican authorities of the aforesaid name. 

The 3 neighbors vowed to cooperate successful protecting the Maya bequest that they share. (Presidencia/Cuartoscuro)

“We should beryllium arrogant to beryllium capable to archer the satellite [that] we person agreed our volition to sphere and reconstruct the bequest of this bonzer biologic and taste wealth,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said successful a statement. “Today’s statement is historical and beautiful. Thank you, President Arévalo, and convey you, Prime Minister Briceño.”

The corridor spans astir 5.7 cardinal hectares of tropical rainforest that is portion of the bequest of the Maya civilization. It covers 600,000 hectares successful Belize, 2.7 cardinal successful Guatemala, and 2.4 cardinal successful Mexico. An estimated 2 cardinal radical unrecorded crossed this area.  

Because this portion inactive has a ample colonisation of Maya descendants, the leaders of the 3 countries emphasized the value of preserving not lone the region’s biologic wealthiness but besides its surviving taste heritage, presenting it arsenic a planetary illustration of biology and societal cooperation.

“We are not lone protecting an ecosystem, but besides honoring the bequest of the civilization that erstwhile flourished successful these territories,” Sheinbaum said.

The corridor aims to support determination taxon specified arsenic the jaguar, tapir, spider monkey, and quetzal. As the 2nd largest tropical rainforest successful the Americas (after the Amazon) its preservation is cardinal to addressing the clime crisis, regulating the h2o cycle, and protecting determination biodiversity.

Belizean Prime Minister Johnny Briceño said that this task is not lone a committedness to biodiversity, but besides “a span to a aboriginal wherever sustainable development, regenerative tourism, and ancestral contented usher our path.”

Meanwhile, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo stressed that the 3 countries are moving “to respond unneurotic to communal threats.”

To code specified threats to the situation arsenic amerciable logging, contamination and fires, the 3 countries person agreed to instrumentality cooperative actions similar sharing information, technology, and training. They person besides agreed to negociate the usage of timber and non-timber wood resources successful an inclusive mode that benefits the communities successful the areas.

With reports from La Jornada and Aristegui Noticias