A HISTORY OF THE EL PILAR ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESERVE FOR MAYA FLORA AND FAUNA |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Begun as an archaeological research project focused on the cultural
ecology of the Maya forest, BRASS/El Pilar has grown into a major interdisciplinary
research program with wide implications for past interpretations, current
development, and future conservation.
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
COMMUNITY |
|
|
MANAGEMENT |
|
RESEARCH |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
1972 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
El Pilar archaeological site recorded by Belize Department of Archaeology (DoA) by Joseph Palacio and Harriet Topsey, full extent unknown |
BZ |
El Pilar archaeological site is recorded in the Belize Department of Archaeology - full extent remains unknown |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Development of Belize River Settlement Survey with DoA |
|
||||||||
1982 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS submits first sketched map of El Pilar to DoA |
BZ |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jaime Awe encourages Anabel Ford, director UCSB's Belize River Settlement Survey (BRASS) to visit El Pilar. |
|
||||||||
1983 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The first map of El Pilar is registered at the Belize DoA |
BZ |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
1984 |
A. Ford presents her research to Cayo JC's, attended by Daniel Silva |
BZ |
|
Existence of a causeway connecting to El Pil to Pilar Poniente is recorded at DOA, Belize |
BZ |
BRASS fieldwork concentrates on local settlement patterns. Transect to El Pilar &El Pilar mapped |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
1986 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Department of Archaeology initializes conservation at El Pilar with BRASS project |
BZ |
BRASS begins survey and initial map of El Pilar, and causeway to the west is identified |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ |
Preliminary investigations at El Pilar recovers chronological data from looters' trenches |
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ |
BRASS begins backfilling of looter's trenches are backfilled |
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
1989 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
A. Ford and DoA discuss w/ rep Silva regarding developmet of El Pilar |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
1992 |
Area Representative Daniel Silva supports community clearing of El Pilar’s plazas |
BZ |
|
BRASS/El Pilar & DoA circulate proposals for boundaries for a protected reserve at El Pilar |
BZ |
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
General meeting is held with El Pilar workers' families about development at El Pilar |
BZ |
|
Tourism developments: |
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
* journalist Carol Miller visits El Pilar |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
* San Ignacio Hotel features El Pilar on brochures |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Village Employment: 14,000 USD |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
COMMUNITY |
|
|
MANAGEMENT |
|
RESEARCH |
|
||||||||||||||
1993 |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A. Ford to Minister Silva regarding proposal for the designation of El Pilar as an archaeological-botanical reserve |
|
First full-scale investigation of El Pilar by BRASS |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
A Ford holds meetings with community members, presenting the idea of a community organization related to plans at El Pilar |
BZ |
|
BZ |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Program is launched |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The BRASS/El Pilar project, under the field direction of D. Clark Wernecke, begins a two year site core mapping program |
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
On June 30, 1993, Amigos de El Pilar group is formed, members join, and officers are elected |
|
|
A. Ford visits Natural Resources regarding a land survey request for El Pilar in May 1993 |
BZ |
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ |
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
AdEP solicits BEST/GEF for support |
BZ |
|
The Stratton lease is put into effect February |
BZ |
Dr. Michael Balick of the New York Botanical Gardens initiates a project on growth patterns at El Pilar |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fall 1993, A. Ford is approached by the Cayo BTIA regarding a possible collaboration which would bring El Pilar into the tourist world |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Diane Peyrefitte of Help for Progress Report on trip to El Pilar with community groups |
BZ |
|
Allan Moore of DoA to Ford supporting the preservation of El Pilar - May 1993 |
BZ |
"Forbidden Zone" Established and registared in Forestry north of Lec |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A. Ford to DoA in regard to a proposal for an archaeological/ botanical Border Park at El Pilar |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A. Ford to UNESCO World Heritage list, July 1993 |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
AdEP is officially registered as a non-profit organization on Sept. 7, 1994, a set of bylaws are drafted, and record keeping is regularized. Assistance form environmental law consultant David Brennan Esq. |
BZ |
|
BTB Vacation Planner List includes El Pilar |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
BRASS : Teo Williams as full-time caretaker at site |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar maintenance: 3,500 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Village Employment: 16,000 USD |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar caretaking: 10,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
COMMUNITY |
|
|
|
|
|
MANAGEMENT |
|
|
|
|
RESEARCH |
|
|
|
|||||
1994 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
USAID/NARMAP funds Links between the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve, the Belize Tourism Industry Association (BTIA), and the Amigos de El Pilar. |
BZ |
|
A. Ford to the Belize Ministry of Natural Resources RE: Reserve boundaries in March 1994 |
|
A master map of the site core is completed, revealing 15 additional major structures, two causeways, and six plazas to the original map |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
BZ |
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
Teo Williams' stories are chronicled, taped and transcribed |
|
|
USAID/NARMAP links the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve, the Belize Tourism Industry Association (BTIA), and the Amigos de El Pilar sponsor community education in resource conservation, craft production, and the development of a trail system and caretaker's facilities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
|
With assistance from the Ix Chel Botanical Research Center, BRASS/El Pilar begins to identify and label medicinal and economically important species at the site |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
AdEP participates in Fiesta El Pilar, held on May 5 |
BZ |
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ |
|
|||||||||||||
AdEP starts to compile community and personal histories and document traditional dances such as the Legend of the Hog Head and Mestizada dances |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
GoB provides funds for full-time caretaker at El Pilar. BRASS continues funding two additional caretakers |
BZ |
Mapping and testing at El Pilar to document plaza connections and construction motives |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
Help for Progress NGO begins participation with Amigos de El Pilar |
BZ/GT |
|
1st Fiesta El Pilar - over 400 regional Maya forest celebrants in attendance on May 5 |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar village employment: 16,000 USD |
BZ |
|
BRASS/El Pilar Maintenance: 4,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Local caretaker installed by GoB |
BZ |
|
BRASS/El Pilar Caretaking: 12,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
AdEP member Prost creates trail signs for El Pilar |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A. Ford to head of IDEAH to present proposal of mapping Pilar Poniente |
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The El Pilar Program obtains permits to conduct a preliminary survey of Pilar Poniente, Guatemala |
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collaboration w/ IDEAH/CONAP mapping El Pilar Poniente |
GT |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS, with Lic. Miguel Orrego, presents the results of mapping to IDEAH, and recommend the establishment of a contiguous reserve in Guatemala |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Protection of Pilar Poniente site taken up with Consejo Technico de Arqueologia, and A. Ford invited to meet with the Ministry of Culture to present her vision of El Pilar Sept 1994 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mexico expresses interest in El Pilar, as a way to expand the Mundo Maya program |
MX |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MANAGEMENT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
COMMUNITY |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
RESEARCH |
|
|
|||||||||
1995 |
A. Ford meets with the Bullet Tree Falls Village Council, and with area representative Fernandez regarding land issues |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
El Pilar field season focuses on refining preliminary maps, investigating lines of communication in the southern ceremonial center, and to begin examining the ceremonial structures of Plaza Copal. Excavation phase of investigation |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
Lands survey / Official boundaries of El Pilar Reserve are established in Belize |
BZ |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
AdEP participates in Mobile TNC workshops May/June |
BZ |
|
Community meeting in Calla Creek - land use/claims |
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A. Ford meets Bullet Tree Falls Village Council and area representative Fernandez addressing land issues |
|
Tunnel excavation evidence dates El Pilar history spans over 2700 years |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
AdEP participates in Fiesta El Pilar, June 10, 1995 |
BZ |
|
BZ |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A.Ford to Police Chief, Cayo Station: El Pilar security, March |
BZ |
Miguel Orrego begins excavations in the Xic Na |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
A galleria is constructed in Bullet Tree Falls with the aid of Global Roots to be managed cooperatively between AdEP and the Bullet Tree Falls Village Council |
|
|
El Pilar conceptualized in Guatemala , January |
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
Lands evaluation by Belize Law w/ support of UF |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Controlled survey of EPAR by Cayo District Lands & Surve provides a basis for linking control points at El Pilar International Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) |
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Construction of a caretakers house at El Pilar with NARMAP and BRASS funds |
BZ |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
AdEP cosponsors BEST/U. West Indies Community Development Workshops in Bullet Tree Falls |
BZ |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
El Pilar trail signs updated and plazas are given names that correspond to nature |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
Training of local tour guides by BRASS/El Pilar |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
with first draft edition of El Pilar Trail guide |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Ford to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Lands and Survey re: land claims at El Pilar, March |
|
Maya Forest-Garden at Tzunu'un initiated |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
BEST funded workshops |
BZ |
|
BZ |
Tzunu'un mapping initiated |
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
AdEP sponsored Bicycle race (Sept 17) |
BZ |
|
2nd Fiesta El Pilar, June 10, 1995, with 800 visitors |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Effort to integrate local tour guides and AdEP into development efforts at the site by BRASS |
BZ |
|
Effort to integrate local tour guides and AdEP into development efforts at the site |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
AdEP initiates environmental education Rosita Arvigo lecture at BTF elementary school |
|
|
Co-participant USIA links Mexico and UCSB conservation at El Pilar. Embassy of Mexico |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
MX |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Maintenance: 5,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Caretaking: 12,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
COMMUNITY |
|
|
|
|
|
|
MANAGEMENT |
|
|
|
|
RESEARCH |
|
|
|||||
1996 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The legal description of the reserve boundaries is written in the Belmopan Department of Lands, Belize |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Field season focus on investigations/excavations of Maya house Tzunu'un, Zotz Na entrance, Plaza Jobo, and the H'mena acropolis |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
AdEP hosts and attends Natural History workshop held at the Belize Zoo with Sharon Matola |
BZ |
|
BZ |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
AdEP Presents funds to Leukemia victim |
BZ |
|
Commission Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD) holds a binational workshop, "Encuentro El Pilar," discuss shared concerns for El Pilar Belize-Guatemala, outline preliminary steps to declare El Pilar protected areas in both counties |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
AdEP collaboration in Fiesta El Pilar |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
El Pilar participates in Sacred Heart Junior College’s Career Week and expresses desire for further collaboration with the school |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ |
First Model Maya house excavation/garden |
|
||||||||
|
|
AdEP petition support for El Pilar Reserve Statutory Instrument given the lands dispute |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Support for participating forest-gardeners / Carmen Cruz |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
El Pilar is listed among 100 sites in peril by the World Monument Watch |
BZ/GT |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
Maya forest-garden project, "Reviving the traditional Forest Garden," is initiated with funds from the Ford Foundation |
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Visitor outhouses installed and trail stairways are improved by BRASS/El Pilar |
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
U. Florida comm. dev team makes initial visit to the community |
BZ |
|
BZ |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Global Roots sponsors the expansion of the BTF AdEP center andis renamed "Be Pukte," Mayan for Bullet Tree Road |
BZ |
|
Jose Antonio Montes joines EP Program as policy expert |
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collaboration with Mexico's INAH (Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia) at El Pilar |
BZ |
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
Publication of booklet & ed materials, est WWW site |
BZ |
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Village Employment: 20,000 USD |
BZ |
|
Collaboration w/ Mexico's INAH (Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia) w/ cosolidation of Zotz Na |
MX |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fiesta El Pilar is celebrated, with an attendance of 1200 |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Maintenance: 5,000 USD |
|
BZ |
Connection between Plaza Copal, Plaza Duende and a linear feature connected to the eastern ridge assessed as an accessway |
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Caretaking: 12,000 |
|
BZ |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
COMMUNITY |
|
|
|
|
|
|
MANAGEMENT |
|
|
|
RESEARCH |
|
|
||||||
1997 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mesoamerican Law Center/UFlorida contracted to facilitate community participation in EPAR management and conduct and legal study of a conservation strategy for El Pilar |
|
Conservation developed in the context of a training program for local workers, managed by Conservation director Rudy Larios and his assistant Enrique Monterroso |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
The Mesoamerican Law Center, University of Florida is contracted by the BRASS/El Pilar Program and begins community assessment project and legal study of a conservation strategy for El Pilar |
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
BZ/GT |
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
MacArthur World Environment and Resources Program and the Ford Foundation provide seed funds for the international and multidisciplinary workshop on El Pilar , the Mesa Redonda, in Mexico City to develop a management strategy. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
Designation of community/program advocate, Anselmo Casteneda |
BZ/GT |
|
|
The vault of The Majesty of the Xamanaj Temple at Plaza Lec is the focus of rescue work |
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
Landscape architects from U. New Mexico visit Be Pukte |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ford Foundation visits El Pilar |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
Fiesta El Pilar held for third year |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Regional advocates Anselmo Casteneda and Jose Antonio Montes are hired by BRASS/El Pilar |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
Lands resolution. Land claimants compensated |
BZ |
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
BRASS/EL Pilar Village Employment: 24,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
BRASS/El Pilar Maintenance: 6,000 USD |
|
BZ |
Excavation at Plaza Jobo is guided by conservation and consolidation w/R. Larios |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Caretaking: 12,000 |
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
El Pilar Mapping Project initiated w/ W. Poe Sonoma State U |
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fiesta El Pilar held for fourth year colaboration |
BZ |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Excavations at Tzunu'un focused expose structures of the courtyard plaza to understand function, construction history, and overall plan |
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lands resolution and claimants compensated |
BZ |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar explores possibility of collaboration with Fundacion Solar, a Guatemalan NGO |
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A. Ford meets Guatemalan Amb A Castellanos about making El Pilar an archaeological reserve |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
COMMUNITY |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
RESEARCH |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
MANAGEMENT |
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
1998 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
AdEP officially opens the Be Pukte Cultural Center |
BZ |
|
The El Pilar Archaeological Reserve is registered by a Statutory Instrument in Belize. No 54 of 1998 |
|
Forest-Garden project focuses on the mapping of the established garden and collection of information on plants that can be used for education and tourism |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ |
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
Agreement w/ BRASS/El Pilar and Belizean NGO Help for Progress to work with AdEP and consolidate EPAR management efforts |
|
|
Agreement between BRASS/El Pilar and Belizean NGO Help for Progress to consolidate EPAR management efforts |
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
AdEP inauguration El Pilar scale model at Be Pukte |
BZ |
|
Raleigh International volunteers work on the construction of the modern Maya house, two visitor rest stops, and a new champa in Plaza Duende |
BZ |
Field focus on the residential unit Tzunu'un and reexamination of the Xik Na tunnel. |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
AdEP women make informal linkage with women of Calla Creek to explain craft initiative at BePukte |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Renovation of El Pilar trail system to improve maintenance and access |
BZ |
Excavation at Tzunu'un reveals an "eastern shrine" residential temple |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
AdEP visits Harris Farm |
BZ |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
AdEP carries out interviews with 150 families |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
Fiesta El Pilar become an annual event |
BZ |
Consolidation of main walls of the southern structure at Tzunu'un |
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
AdEP involvement in the Mesa Redonda II |
BZ |
|
Mesa Redonda II, Placencia, Belize |
BZ/GT |
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
El Pilar developed as a Contiguous Reserve |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
Amigos de El Pilar endorses draft management plan |
BZ/GT |
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Isidro Teck grant to learn consolidation techniques with Miguel Orrego |
|
|
Development of joint proposals with HfP |
|
BZ |
Xikna Excavation of the tunnel continues |
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
PROARCA/CAPAS. Institutional Framework for El Pilar |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
AdEP works with BRASS at Fiesta El Pilar |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Draft management plan established, endorsed by AdEP |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
STAR (Somos Tambien Adolecentes Responsables) formed with the developments at El Pilar and AdEP |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
The Ford Foundation supports the Institutionalization of the El Pilar Program |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
AdEP Donates curtains to the BTF Catholic Church |
BZ |
|
Informal alliance with Canan K'aax in Guatemala |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
AdEP sponsors essay competition: "What is El Pilar and why is it important to my community and me?" |
|
|
GT |
Initial mapping of El Pilar Poniente sections |
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
Formation of AdEP group in Melchor, Guatemala |
GT |
Establish Collaborative Agreement w/CONAP |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Monumento Cultural El Pilar is certified in Guatemala |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
AdEP promotion of Be Pukte in San Ignacio at Bullet Tree Falls businesses |
BZ |
|
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
AdEP BZ/GU work together on PROARCA proposal. |
BZ |
|
University of Florida assessment of EP in Final Report |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Maintenance: 4,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
U Florida submits Final Report community participation facilitation |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
BRASS/El Pilar Caretaking: 12,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Ford Foundation funds for community assessment and institutional strengthening |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
AdEP conducts survey on community perception of El Pilar |
|
|
British High commission funds construction of 4 comfort stations and a gallery structure at El Pilar with Raleigh International, AdEP with the BRASS/EP crew |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
Work on the Masewal Forest Garden Trail begins with help from Raleigh International |
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Village Employment: 14,000 USD |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
COMMUNITY |
|
|
|
|
|
|
MANAGEMENT |
|
|
|
RESEARCH |
|
|
||||||
1999 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Continued excavation and presentation of Tzunu'un to confirm the method of access from the plaza to Str 1, and clarify construction chronology |
|
||||||||
|
|
HfP alliance with Canan K'aax in Guatemala to give leadership to AdEP in BZ and GT |
BZ |
|
HfP alliance w/ Canan K'aax, an NGO in Guatemala, to to buid cross-border strategy |
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The El Pilar mapping project focuses on survey coordination and development in order to verify the El Pilar site grid and transform the local grid into the UTM (Universal Transverse Macerator) so that El Pilar data can be incorporated into the larger GIS system |
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS, Canan K'aax, and HfP implement PROARCA/CAPAS' proposal "A Trans-boundary initiative for Cooperative (joint) Management and community-based Ecotourism and Sustainable Agriculture Practices |
BZ/GT |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
BRASS, Canan K'aax, and HfP implement PROARCA/CAPAS trans-boundary initiative for resource management and development |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
AdEP Belize / Guatemala agreement of cooperation for the conservation development of El Pilar |
BZ/GT |
|
"Planificacion para el Manejo y Operacion del Sitio El Pilar" elaborated by Canan K'aax |
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
Continue Collaborative Agreement w/CONAP |
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Management/small enterprise training for AdEP by HfP |
BZ |
|
Formation of the PATEC technical committee El Pilar to review and finalize the management plan for EPAR |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
Masewal Forest Garden Trail Inauguration w/ Raleigh & AdEP |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
Mesoamerican Biological Corridors Project to discuss and prepare strategies that will ensure the foundation of community structures leading to co-management of EPAR |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
Construction of the Café Be Pukte begins in Bullet Tree Falls with support from the Canada Fund |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
AdEP collaboration in the Forest Garden at El Pilar w/ BRASS/EL Pilar |
|
|
HfP - "The El Pilar Blue Print: Creating Livelihood at the Nexus of Culture and Nature" with Ford Foundation funds |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
The British High commission funds the construction at El Pilar to be built with the help of Raleigh International volunteers and the Amigos de El Pilar with BRASS/EP management |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Work on the Forest Garden continues with the collaboration of AdEP and the caretakers. Growth and development is monitored. Connection with Herbierto Cocom's Masewal Forest Garden Trail creates new link to traditional farming methods |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
Opening of the Tzunu’un Maya house at El Pilar |
BZ |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
Selva Maya Coalition meeting |
BZ/GT |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
Mesoamerican Biological Corridors to discuss / prepare strategies to ensure the foundation of co-management of EPAR |
BZ |
|
PROARCA/CAPAS. Trans-border Management and Institutional Framework |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Government and NGOs in Belize and Guatemala met at Yaxha for the "Dia del Sombrero Verde" for cooperation in the management of EP |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
Mobile Workshops ("Talleres") to six major archaeological destinations in the Mundo Maya in 1999-2000 to familiarize AdEP with sites that involve adjacent communities in management activities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
The British High commission funds the construction of four comfort stations and a gallery structure at El Pilar to be built with the help of Raleigh International volunteers and Amigos de El Pilar with the BRASS/EP crew |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
Strengthening of bonds between AdEPs and other community groups |
BZ/GT |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
AdEP members from Belize and Guatemala attend one-week training in Agro-forestry, organic farming in Altertec, Guatemala |
BZ/GT |
|
BRASS/El Pilar Maintenance: 4,000 USD |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Caretaking: 12,000 USD |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Amigos de El Pilar, Melchor is registered and launched as an official "Sociedad Civil"/ NGO in Guatemala |
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Village Employment: 16,000 USD |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MANAGEMENT |
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
COMMUNITY |
|
|
|
|
|
|
RESEARCH |
|
|
||||||||||
2000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Full bi-national community organization and sponsorship of Fiesta El Pilar in April 30, 2000, drawing over 1,500 visitors to El Pilar. |
BZ/GT |
|
Rolex Award for Enterprise – Cultural Heritage recognition |
BZ/GT |
Rolex Award for Enterprise – Cultural Heritage recognition to honor A. Ford |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
for El Pilar vision |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
Sacred Heart Junior College and Belize College of Agriculture add EPAR related activities to curriculum with PCT funds |
|
|
Joint organization of Fiesta El Pilar by AdEP Belize and Guatemala |
BZ/GT |
Integration and assessment of the database for El Pilar and Belize River Area documentation |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
At Mesa Redonda III, the Resolution Pajaro Serpiente is agreed upon which establishes the El Pilar Consultative Council (CoCEP) to advance the goals and objectives of the Mesa Redonda |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BZ/GT |
Monument conservation assessment for core area of El Pilar for future planning |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
Grand opening of Café Be Pukte in Bullet Tree Falls |
BZ |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Publication of El Pilar postcard and poster promoting El Pilar |
BZ/GT |
Compilation of the UCSB Maya Forest GIS |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
Ford Foundation to HfP project, "The El Pilar Blue Print" to establish community participation/eco-archaeological tourism development |
|
|
Distribution of the 2 CD set: UCSB Maya Forest GIS |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
PACT funds for conservation education |
BZ |
Tunnel completion 45 in Xikna |
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Key actors initiate the strategic planning process for co-management at Jaguar Creek, May 5-6 |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
Key actors initiate the strategic planning process for co-management at Jaguar Creek, May 5-6 |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
CAPAS Grants "The Institutionalization of El Pilar: Building Bridges in the Private Sector" |
BZ/GT |
|
BRASS/El Pilar Maintenance: 5,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Caretaking: 12,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
CAPAS Grants "Regional Community Action and the El Pilar Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna" |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
GT |
Continue Collaborative Agreement w/CONAP |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Village Employment: 20,000 USD |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MANAGEMENT |
|
RESEARCH |
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
COMMUNITY |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
2001 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Fiesta El Pilar 2001 attracts over 2,500 visitors, and includes Reina El Pilar Chikin and Lakin |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
CoCEP (Consultative Council El Pilar) formed to jointly coordinate management of EPAR |
BZ/GT |
Excavations are aimed at Plaza Jobo, and attention is given to Plaza Copal to determine the state of the tunnel entrance |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar donates computer equipment to the computer center of Sacred Heart JC. |
BZ |
|
Fiesta El Pilar 2001 attracts over 2,500 visitors, impacts exceed carry capacity of site |
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
PROARCA project proposal to fund strategies mandated by Mesa Redonda III and the Resolution Pajaro Serpiente |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
"Estudio de Capacidad de Cargo" is compiled by investigators from Sacred Heart, HfP, AdEP and Canan K'aax to approximate the carrying capacity of El Pilar |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
Infrastructure is strengthened, including repair of equipment, trail repair, replacement of trail signs, and landscape development |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
Help for Progress collaborates with AdEP on the development of a local bibliography on the forest-garden |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
The Tzunu'un Maya Forest Trail Guide is published for distribution with proceeds to go to AdEP |
BZ |
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
"Retrieving Old Traditions" Agro-Forestry meeting is held in BTF on Dec. 28, 2001 with Alfonso Tzul from U. Kuxtal Masewal |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Estudio de Capacidad de Cargo" is compiled by investigators from Sacred Heart, HfP, AdEP and Canan K'aax to approximate the carrying capacity of El Pilar |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
The Association of Communities in Forested Areas conducts a community survey of farming systems |
BZ |
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
Household survey is carried out by the Faculty of Resources, University of Belize to collect data on local forest gardens and lad use |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
Establishment of a nursery at EPAR and forest rehabilitation at plazas and trails |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
Aug 25th, Sep 14, Nov 10th Farm exchange visits from Belize and Guatemala |
|
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Maintenance: 5,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
Forest rehabilitation efforts at Masewal Forest Garden and Be Pukte |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
BZ |
|
BRASS/El Pilar Caretaking: 12,000 USD |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
AdEP/Guatemala initiates actions to relocate two families squatting in the reserve |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Both AdEP groups sign the Declaration El Pilar International Community Participation formally committing to work together for the protection and co-management of El Pilar |
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar Village Employment: 22,000 USD |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MANAGEMENT |
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
COMMUNITY |
|
|
|
|
|
|
RESEARCH |
|
|
||||||||||
2002 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BRASS/El Pilar field season focuses on strengthening collaboration with AdEP and wider community |
|
||||||||
Fiesta El Pilar is held Bullet Tree Falls April 27th and 28th, organized by AdEP Chikin and Lakin |
|
|
Trails of El Pilar trail guide is published presented at Fiesta El Pilar 2002 |
BZ |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
AdEP participates and hosts FLASCO community self-management workshops in Bullet Tree Falls |
|
|
Illegal logging carried out El Pilar reserves in Belize and Guatemala |
BZ/GT |
BRASS/El Pilar research collaboration with Grinell College students and professors at El Pilar |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
HfP Oral History Project with Sacred Heart JC |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
BZ/GT |
Internship for Belizean students |
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Two day meeting at Yaxha May 7-8 attended by research managers, scientists, NGO's government officials and community members to develop interest in a Maya Forest node of the Resilience Alliance |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
Fieast El Pilar in BTF |
|
|
BZ/GT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Resilience Alliance Maya Forest Node Presentation |
|
||||||||||||
|
|
Presentation of 10 years of Achievements at El Pilar |
|
BZ |
|
BZ/GT |
Yaxha Peten Guatemala |
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cayo Tour Guide Workshop May 18th: The El Pilar Vision |
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
Presentation of 10 years of Achievements at El Pilar |
|
BZ |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||