“Experts often consider open-pit mining to be the most destructive industrial activity in terms of environmental depletion, social and cultural impact… In San Miguel Ixtahuacán and Sipakapa, San Marcos, intensive mineral exploitation has already left its mark. Local residents from… Read More ›
Environment
Guatemalan Biologist wins a Whitley Award for Nature Conservation
I recently visited Wakehurst Place, a beautiful garden in West Sussex, but also home to the Millennium Seed Bank. The seed bank is aiming to collect and store seed of ten percent of the world’s flowering plants by 2010. In… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 