The Indigenous Mayan Community that Formed the Elijio Panti National Park

Traditional cultures and lifestyles are quickly disappearing as industry and modernization creep into territories of traditional peoples. Forests are cut down for agriculture, roads and industry, and people are displaced in favor of money-making businesses, with little regard for their lifestyle or well. being. This is a sad reality of globalization and modernization ("progress"), and while there are conscious groups fighting preservation and limits to the destruction of nature and native peoples, it is big businesses and corporations that have the political power and financial strength that influence decisions across the globe.