About a week ago we lost a jaguar in a car collision, just over here,” says Celso Poot, director of the nonprofit Belize Zoo ...

IN THE MAYA FOREST, Mexico — Machete in hand, Manuel Pérez Rivas sliced his way through the jungle. He stepped carefully over moss and rock and mud, gaiters to protect his ankles from rattlesnakes.

FLORES, Guatemala (CNN)-- In the rain forests of Central America grows the nutrient-rich Maya nut. The marble-sized seed can be prepared to taste like mashed potatoes, chocolate or coffee.

Lidar—laser technology that digitally removes the forest canopy—reveals that the Maya city sprawled more than seven square miles. The two archaeologists, both National Geographic Explorers ...

NEW YORK — The trees in Maya Lin's new public art installation, "Ghost Forest," don't seem particularly ghostly. They feel sculptural, even playful. Perhaps that’s because the people lying on ...

Daarnaast komen er 54 soorten zoogdieren voor. Tikal National Park is located in Northern Guatemala's Petén Province within a large forest region often referred to as the Maya Forest, which extends ...