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FCD Found Farmers From Guate, 8 Years An Encroacher
posted (June 28, 2018)
The Friends for Conservation and Development have captured 2 more Guatemalans encroaching on Belizean territory inside the Chiquibul National Park.

Yesterday, a team of FCD Park Rangers and BDF soldiers were on patrol in the Cebada area, in southern Chiquibul. They encountered 2 Guatemalan farmers 2.7 kilometers inside the national park.

42 year-old Benigno Oroman Perez, and 17 year-old Elder Danilo Oroman Perez, who both live in Las Brisas de Chiquibul, in Peten, Guatemala acknowledged that they were trespassing on Belizean territory. They told the Belizean lawmen that they have been farming in this area for the past 8 years. They were then escorted to the San Ignacio Police Station, where they await charges of illegal entry and illegal cultivation.

As we told you, the Government opened the Cebada Conservation Post last week to deter new incursions. This new conservation posts allows for the re-instatement of a steady patrol program.

The last assessment from February 2017 indicated that approximately just over 1,320 acres of forests have been illegally cleared to make room for farming that shouldn't be happening there.

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