In Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, a hidden underground world is under threat by the Maya Train – Winnipeg Free Press
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Mexico’s outgoing leader has rapidly built a train system looping around the country’s southern Yucatan Peninsula. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised the more than $30 billion Maya Train project
The government has established new protected areas covering almost 18,000 hectares in six states, from Baja California to Quintana Roo.
It was a hot, bright afternoon in the Place Where the Sky Is Born. This is one of several translations of the Maya phrase Sian Ka'an, the name for a 1,080-square-mile biosphere reserve on the Caribbean coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. A gentle current pulled me west down an ancient canal to the sea. The water was crystalline and just cool enough to be refreshing as I drifted past a centuries-old Mayan customhouse and the high white arcades of mangrove roots, convenient perches for darting purple martins, gray crowned cranes, and pink bromeliads with their spiky fronds. It was nearly s...