Under the soaring, leafy mahogany and cedar trees in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, the visiting group discusses ways to ensure the rain forest remains healthy, while studying the reserve-type model ...

Guatemala Tikal National Park (1979) Maya (1990) Tikal National Park is one of the core areas of the larger Maya Biosphere Reserve. Guinea Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (1981) Mont Nimba (1980) ...

We were in the Mirador Basin, a subtropical rainforest of about 2,700 square miles in the heart of Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve. Here, hundreds of Maya structures have been discovered ...

The view from the top of Tikal’s Pyramid of the Lost World over the dense forest of the Maya Biosphere Reserve and Temple IV. The fall of the ancient Maya civilisation came gradually — as did ...

Hacking away handfuls of grass with machetes, Leonel Acosta wages an unequal but hopeful fight to reclaim land deforested by illegal ranching in the heart of Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve, the ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have uncovered a Mayan tomb estimated to be from 350 C.E. deep in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a discovery lead researcher Francisco Estrada-Belli has described as akin ...

We were in the Mirador Basin, a subtropical rainforest of about 2,700 square miles in the heart of Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve. Here, hundreds of Maya structures have been discovered ...