The fight to save Guatemala's Maya nature reserve from drug gangs
Central America’s largest expanse of intact rainforest is under threat from organised crime
The region that became the Maya Biosphere Reserve was once a vast mix of lowland rainforest, wetlands, lagoons, lakes, rivers, and mangrove forests. As many as 2 million people lived here at the peak of Mayan civilization, around 800 A.D., archeologists estimate. Then came the Mayan decline and Spanish conquest.
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