It’s here, tucked into the safety of the jungle, that the Mopan Maya live. Native to Belize and Guatemala, the Mopans are one of the 28 subethnic groups of the Maya people. Roughly 10,000 people ...

Jose is from the Mopan community, an Indigenous sub-group of the ancient Maya civilisation native to ... chikay (shoots of the heliconia plant), as well as callaloo and wild chaya (both spinach ...

To understand the relationship between indigenous peoples and their traditional lands, one need not look further than the indigenous Q'eqchi' and Mopan Maya communities in the Toledo District in ...