AP: How Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize plan to protect 14 million acres of Mayan forest

Last year, Mexico, Guatemala and Belize announced plans to create a huge reserve of tropical forest spanning across the three countries. However, pushing out criminal gangs and protecting the land from ranchers, miners and loggers won’t be easy. The nature reserve was named the Great Mayan Jungle Biocultural Corridor and will stretch across jungle areas of southern Mexico and northern parts of the two Central American nations, encompassing more than 14 million acres (5.7 million hectares). It would become the second largest reserve in the Americas, behind only the Amazon. Read ON.