Members of the Committee and EcoLogic have met with the President of the Congressional Commission on the Environment, Aura Otzoy Colaj, and other indigenous leaders in the Guatemalan Congress. We are in the process of bringing together an official commission to resolve the current conflict. Meanwhile, EcoLogic has provided desperately-needed financial support for the Itza forest guards to patrol the reserve while the Committee plans to secure future sources of funding. This provided an opportunity to examine the relationship between Chuj traditions and use of natural resources. Villagers working with PAF-Maya are particularly concerned with improving agriculture and saving their rapidly disappearing forest.
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