The Future of Petén

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The laboratory in the jungle is a small oasis of electricity and Wi-Fi in Peten’s sea of rainforest darkness broken only by the drone of cicadas that is present all day. Every night, David Barreda and I move in with a bag of battery chargers, power strips, two laptops and a multitude of gadgets that [...]

This is an invitation to join in The Future of Petén weblogging project, www.futureofpeten.com, aimed at creating a dialogue around the story of the remote Petén region of northern Guatemala where environmentalists are fighting environmentalists in a behind-the-scenes ideological conflict over how best to save the vast but rapidly shrinking Maya forest.
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