freddie molino san cino is vice president of the arbol verde concession, which has been given to localgging might seem anathema to saving a rainforest, it turns out that concessions like these can have quite the opposite effect. by giving local residents economic incentive to conserve the rainforest and by being run with strict adherence to sustainable management principles, community concessions like this one have actually protected the reserve. one of the biggest challenges to archaeologists in the maya biosphere reserve is not narco trafficking, logging or even looting. it is the fact that it is extremely difficult to find or identify structures in a jungle as wild as this one. and that is where a technology that is relatively new to archaeology, lidar, has been transformative. so, this hill is supposedly a pyramid. they think it might be as big as the great pyramid. it's definitely steep, but it looks like a hill, so it is pretty amazing that they are able to find that out through lidar. we are right here. 0nly10% of tikal has actually been excavated and discovered. this feels very