A large part of our efforts are aimed at environmental education and sustainable living courses.
Education is a key to conservation. The way we consider and understand our surroundings will define our relationships, decisions and destiny.
The Uxpanapa region, as it stands in the narrowest part of North America (the Isthmus of Tehuantepec) has historically been used as a meeting place for the exchange of ancient goods and knowledge. Nowadays, things have not changed much, however in an unsustainable manner, since local and federal governments still entertain plans of destroying the magnificent 1 million hectares of virgin rainforest in order to set up a land version of the Panama canal that would enable transport to cross from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean in a short lapse of time. This would be devastating to the vulnerable wildlife, centuries-old trees and the irreplaceable services they provide of clean water, oxygen, climate stabilization and abundance of renewable natural resources. But also, ancient cultures still live and exchange goods in this area, making modern development the decided end to the diversity of authentic indigenous cultures that call this vast rainforest home.
If we do not understand our connection to our surroundings, if we do not discuss our history and agree on a healthy future, we will be as vulnerable to disappearance as nature is under our misguided axe.