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Guatemala Guards Its Rain Forests
Perera, Victor | July 8, 1991 issue

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When the Conservation International Foundation held its board meeting in Antigua, Guatemala, in February 1991, Vice President James Nations predicted that if tropical forest conservation failed in Guatemala, it did not stand a chance anywhere else in the hemisphere. A landmark 1990 law created, was a 4-million acre Mayan Biosphere Reserve in the northern region of El Petén that is becoming the blueprint for rain-forest conservation in the part of the world. In Antigua, Nations hailed the youthful staff of the National Council of Protected Areas, which manages the Biosphere Reserve, as "the finest group of conservationists in Latin America.

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FORESTS & forestry; FOREST conservation; CONSERVATION of natural resources; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; BIOSPHERE reserves; GUATEMALA
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