AT THE CROSSROADS OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT THE CHALLENGE OF THE MAYA FOREST A Report to the Coalición de la Selva Maya and the Tropical Ecosystem Directorate of the United States Man and the Biosphere Program
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The authors would like to acknowledge the generous assistance of a number of researchers with special knowledge of the Maya Forest, especially Kevin Gould, Ms candidate at the University of Florida, Professor Hugo Guillen, from the University of Chiapas, and Daniel Juhn from Conservation International, who provided the imagery, and, of course the members of the Maya Forest Coalicion and MAB-TED. AT THE CROSSROADS OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
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