{"id":1525,"date":"2025-02-12T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T21:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2025-02-12T21:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T21:17:39","slug":"guatemala-ctenosaura-alfredschmidti-discovered-in-el-mirador-rio-azul-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/guatemala-ctenosaura-alfredschmidti-discovered-in-el-mirador-rio-azul-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala:\u00a0 Ctenosaura alfredschmidti discovered in El Mirador R\u00edo Azul National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Ctenosaura alfredschmidti<\/em>, photo: Carlos Albecete.<\/span><\/p>\n

T<\/strong>his discovery proves that not all news from Guatemala is bad news.\u00a0 An ecological evaluation completed in July 2003 by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in El Mirador R\u00edo Azul National Park confirmed the discovery of the lizard Ctenosaura alfredschmidti<\/em>.\u00a0 Until now, this species, which is relatively new to science, had only been found in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. According to WCS-Guatemala’s director, Roan Balas, the ecological evaluation of Mirador R\u00edo Azul could still produce more surprises like this one.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WCS staff holding the lizard, Ctenosaura alfredschmidti,<\/em> photo: Carlos Albecete<\/span><\/p>\n

El Mirador R\u00edo Azul National Park, part of the Maya Biosphere Reserve, is located in northeastern Guatemala in the department of Pet\u00e9n.\u00a0 The park borders Mexico and Belize.\u00a0 Biological diversity in the area has not been well documented.\u00a0 The few studies that have been conducted have documented uncommon species, such as the orchid Ryncholaelia digbyana<\/em> var. Fimbripetala<\/em>, which was considered a rare species of Mexico and Honduras that was found in the park in 2001.<\/p>\n

The park still maintains its ecological characteristics and is one of the few Guatemalan parks without people living in or immediately surrounding its borders.\u00a0 However, human activity is slowly encroaching and could eventually threaten its biological integrity and biodiversity.\u00a0 The recent discovery confirms that El Mirador R\u00edo Azul National Park is of the utmost importance for conservation and the area deserves our best efforts in order to keep it pristine.<\/p>\n

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This discovery proves that not all news from Guatemala is bad news.  An ecological evaluation completed in July 2003 by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in El Mirador R\u00edo Azul National Park confirmed the discovery of the lizard <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemala"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta10.technodreamcenter.com\/parkswatch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}