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MAYA PROJECT COLLABORATORS
Several Guatemalan government agencies provided assistance
throughout the project. For permission to conduct research
within Parque Nacional Tikal, we are grateful to the Ministerio
de Cultura y Deportes and IDAEH (the Instituto de Antropología
e Historia), and to the personnel of Tikal National Park. In
particular, we are grateful to several Directors of IDAEH,
including Lic. Agustín Estrada Monroy, Lic. Leopoldo Colom
Molina, Arq. Claudio Olivares, Arq. Erick Cortez Serrano, Prof.
Hugo F. Hernández, and Dr. Juan Antonio Valdez, and to Lic.
Rafael Torres Azurdia, Asesor Jurídico of IDAEH.
We are especially grateful to the several directors of Tikal
National Park during our work there, including Rogel Chí
Ochaeta, Lic. Rolando Torres, and Lic. Rolando Pernillo, and to
the many park guards at Tikal who facilitated our work in many
ways, and were our friends.
For permits to conduct research in Guatemala, we are grateful
to the personnel of CONAP (Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas)--Guatemala's
lead agency for wildlife and protected areas. We are grateful to
several CONAP directors, including Andreas Lehnhoff, Ing. Milton
Sarabia, Lic. Arturo Duarte O., and Licda. Enma Díaz de
Gordillo, and to Oscar F. Lara, Mygdalia García, Milton R.
Cabrera, and other staff in the CONAP central office, for many
forms of assistance. We are also grateful to personnel of
CONAP's Region 8 which includes our project area.
We are also grateful to many personnel of CECON--the Centro
de Estudios Conservacionistas of the Universidad de San Carlos
de Guatemala. CECON lent us their employee, Julio Madrid, for
several years; as Julio formed a central part of the project,
this was a most important form of collaboration. In addition,
CECON allowed us to conduct research in three of their "Biotopos",
which were among the first protected areas to be designated in
Guatemala. We are indebted to several individuals who served as
Directors of CECON during the tenure of our project: Lic. Billy
T. Alquijay C., Lic. Milton R. Cabrera B., and Lic. Ismael
Ponciano G. In addition we owe thanks to other CECON personnel
for various forms of assistance: Olga Valdez, Luís Villar, Otto
Sandoval, Jorge Cardona, Sergio Perez, Rolando Escobar, and
Herman Kihn. We are also grateful to Dr. Alfonso Fuente Soria,
Rector of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.
At three CECON biotopo reserves where we worked (San
Miguel-La Palotada (Zotz), Dos Lagunas, and Cerro Cahuí) CECON
designated resource guards who collaborated with us in field
work, both aiding us and receiving training in the process.
These individuals included Pablo Ycal, Ladislao Salguero Castro,
Hernán Reyes Perez, Cleofes Olivares Cardona, Gaudencio Israel
Vitzil, Gonzalo Gallardo Espinoza, Juan Ramón Ramírez,
Fernando Tesucun, Guadalupe Salatiel Nuñez, Jorge Waldemar
Luna, Aníbal Ramírez Medrano, Rubíd Fajardo Barrientos,
Hector Tot, Carlos Cxol Caal, Saul Castillo, José Angel Mayen,
Roberto Payes, Antonio Pinelo, Jesús Aguilar Cano, Amilcar
Morales, Julio Gallardo, Cain Olivares, and Ernesto Ramírez.
For permission to conduct reserch in Belize, we are grateful
to Mr. Earl Green of the Forestry Department and Mr. R. Belisle
of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of
Natural Resources.
For permission to conduct research in Mexico we are grateful
to Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra of the Instituto Nacional de Ecología,
and Dra. Graciela de la Garza García of the Dirección General
de Conservación Ecológica de los Recursos Naturales, and to
other personnel of the Instituto Nacional de Ecología.
We received important collaboration and support from the
Guatemala mission of USAID (U. S. Agency for International
Development). We are especially indebted to Keith Kline, and are
also grateful to Claudia de Pastor, Paula S. Miller, and Claudio
Saito.
The Fundación Mario Dary para la Conservación de la
Naturaleza (FUNDARY) did a marvelous job of managing our project
payroll, assisting in importation of vehicles, and other
managerial tasks. We are deeply grateful to several FUNDAY staff
and officers, including Lic. Juan Mario Dary, Lic. Julio Enrique
Obiols G., Victor Hugo Guerra, Lillian Yvonne Ramírez, and Yuri
Giovanni Melini.
At Guatemala's Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente (CONAMA)
we are grateful to Arq. Jorge Cabrera Hidalgo. We are also
indepted to Arq. Marcio Antonio Palacios M., regional chief of
the government planning agency, SEGEPLAN, for assistance of
several forms.
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