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Environmental Protection

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The Environmental Protection Program fosters community management of the environment. SATIIM is coordinating a network of community forest rangers in both Belize and Guatemala who are creating a regional system of environmental data. The organization is also developing a model of community-led natural resource management planning. Given the primal importance of the environment to Maya and traditional cultures, it is the thread running all SATIIM’s programmes

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SATIIM believes that environmental protection is a way of life and recognizes that the Maya have always recognized the importance of protecting the environment.

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