Posted October 06, 2021
As our new 5-year project with CONAP started earlier this year, since this is a project of cooperation and coordination, we share our goals: when they ask that we do field work in a particular area we do this. When we find an interesting ecosystem that has not been studied or published, we register that area as where we would like to accomplish research.
Biotopo Cerro Cahui is part of a group of nearby nature reserves and national parks that are working together to protect the local flora and fauna. Having a corridor so that monkeys of Tikal and Yaxha can move south to interact with monkeys along the north side of Lake Peten Itza is one aspect. Same for jaguars: you don’t want the jaguars to be limited to interbreeding in one small area. This corridor also includes the work of Sebastian de la Hoz Moretti and Juan Carlo de la Hoz Moretti and their helpful conservation project Green Balam Forests.
So far, we have visited five of the areas of this group of nature reserves and parks. We are working on paperwork to register for the Tikal area.
Biotopo Cerro Cahui is easy to get to (see map in the report, page 4). The view from the top is worth the climb.