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Felisa Navas Perez

Guatemala

President and Legal Representative of the Integrated Forestry Association Cruce a la Colorada (AFICC), ACOFOP member organisation. Felisa was elected to be President of AFICC after the murder of David Salguero in 2010, after which David’s father, then President of the Association, had to leave the community because of death threats against him.

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    The Community Forest Concessions in the Petén, Guatemala, battle against forest fires and invasions on their land through diverse methods of control including more than one thousand annual fire prevention and monitoring patrols, the use of technologies such as drones and GPS trackers, and the labor-intensive construction of over 450 km of firebreaks. The communities won the […]

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