Security forces arrive at the Xan Oil Field – credit, Gobierno de Guatemala Guatemala has opted out of renewing a lease agreement on a 7,000-acre oil field in order to use the land for better protection of the surrounding Laguna del Tigre Biosphere Reserve. An 830,000-acre component of the greater Mayan Biosphere Reserve which allows … Read more
Skylar Zilka – via Unsplash When Mr. Michel Éprinchard inherited a large empty field in Western France, he didn’t think much of it. Overgrown with weeds and childhood memories of walks along the tree line, for a long time neither he nor anyone else in his family had any interest in developing it. That all … Read more
Tule elk scamper away through the hills – credit – released by Gov. Newsom’s office A California Indian nation celebrated the return of 17,000 acres of ancestral lands by releasing several of the region’s native Tule elk to roam the hills again for the first time in decades. The Tule River Indian Tribe elders and … Read more