freddy molina is vice president of the arbol verde concession which has been given to local residentsile logging might seem an anathema to the forest, it turns out that concessions like these can have quite the opposite effect. by by giving local residents financial incentive to run the forest, community concessions like this one have actually protected the reserve. one of the biggest challenges to archaeologists in the maya biosphere reserve isn't narco—trafficking, logging or even looting. it's a fact that it's extremely difficult to find or identify structures in a jungle as thick and wild as this one. and that's where a technology that's relatively new to archaeology, lidar, has been transformative. so, this hill is supposedly a pyramid. they think it might be may be as big as the great pyramid, the mundo perdido, it's definitely steep. it looks like a hill. so, it's pretty amazing that they're able to find that out through lidar. we're right here. 0nly10% of tikal has actually been excavated and discovered? this feels very indiana jones. lidar is a type of remote sensing technolo