Me, pictured center, with just one of six million indigenous Mayans living in the Maya Forest. Why I didn’t know much about Mesoamerica’s Maya Forest (or ‘Selva Maya’ in Spanish), I’m not sure (and yes, am admittedly embarrassed). My guess is that since the Amazon takes the

gold for being the largest rainforest, it receives the most attention. (A quick search on TreeHugger results in pages upon pages of Amazon news and you guessed it, close to zilch on the

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The World’s Second Largest Tropical Rainforest