An Ecology of KnowledgesGuatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the largest protected area in Central America, is characterized by rampant violence, social and ethnic inequality, and rapid deforestation. Faced with these threats, local residents, conservationists, scientists, and NGOs in the region work within what Micha Rahder calls an ecology of knowledges, in which interventions on the MBR landscape are tied to differing and sometimes competing forms of knowing. In this