Event Title
Planting Trees: Protecting the Environment in Guatemala
Description
Within the greater contexts of environmental justice, climate change, and indigenous peoples’ struggle for survival and sovereignty, community activist Jorge Armando will highlight his work with the Chico Mendes Reforestation Project in Pachaj, a Maya K’iche’ village in Guatemala. The Project began in 1998 as an idea conceived by Jorge Armando and two friends who had become disillusioned with the politics of their local government and created a new environmental initiative with a focus on the reforestation of nearby community lands. It began with a small tree nursery in Pachaj—an area highly impacted by heavy logging, mining, agriculture and the deforestation done during the Civil War of the 1980s. Join Jorge Armando to learn about the Project and the environmental crisis in Central America created by civil war, international free trade agreements, and continued social repression.
About the Lecturer: Jorge Armando Lopez, Chico Mendes Reforestation Project in Guatemala
Document Type
Event
Start Date
12-2-2015 12:00 PM
End Date
12-2-2015 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Reforestation--Guatemala; Environmental justice--Guatemala
Geographic Coverage
Guatemala--Politics and government
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Environmental justice, Climate change, Indigenous peoples
Rights
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Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Planting Trees: Protecting the Environment in Guatemala
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Within the greater contexts of environmental justice, climate change, and indigenous peoples’ struggle for survival and sovereignty, community activist Jorge Armando will highlight his work with the Chico Mendes Reforestation Project in Pachaj, a Maya K’iche’ village in Guatemala. The Project began in 1998 as an idea conceived by Jorge Armando and two friends who had become disillusioned with the politics of their local government and created a new environmental initiative with a focus on the reforestation of nearby community lands. It began with a small tree nursery in Pachaj—an area highly impacted by heavy logging, mining, agriculture and the deforestation done during the Civil War of the 1980s. Join Jorge Armando to learn about the Project and the environmental crisis in Central America created by civil war, international free trade agreements, and continued social repression.
About the Lecturer: Jorge Armando Lopez, Chico Mendes Reforestation Project in Guatemala
