Reviving traditional Maya agriculture
Anabel Ford has spent almost two decades bringing together diverse disciplines, priorities and people at El Pilar, a vast ancient Maya city straddling the border between Belize and Guatemala. With her multidisciplinary team of researchers, this American archaeologist and anthropologist is developing the site into a model for conservation, sustainable development and cooperation.
"I want people to engage with their surroundings, to explore for themselves the relationship of history and nature.”
She is now closer than ever to realising her ultimate vision for a single, unified El Pilar. To achieve this, she has implemented the El Pilar Program, a strategic plan that transcends a troubled international boundary and establishes the long-term foundation for preserving the site’s cultural heritage.
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Colouring to save the Maya forest
Anabel Ford published a colouring book for schoolchildren to raise awareness of the need to protect biodiversity.
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Dr Anabel Ford
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ISBER/ MesoAmerican Research Center
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2150
United StatesTel: +1 805 893 8191
ford@marc.ucsb.edu
