Natalia Romero Santiago Los Árboles Tulum (LAT) is a truly unique place, one that demonstrates that humans and nature can coexist without disrupting each other’s...
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Not All Stingless Bees Are “Meliponas”
A practical guide to stingless bee tribes in Quintana Roo In Quintana Roo, any small stingless bee tends to be called melipona. This is understandable and...
What we learned from arboreal camera trapping at LAT
Filippo Aureli and Mónica Maravert Solano Do you remember that a couple of years ago the ConMonoMaya team installed camera traps (also called trail cameras)...
Exciting Conservation Feature: Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Visits Our Spider Monkey Community
Dear Homeowners, Last week, our community had the incredible honor of hosting the iconic Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom as they filmed a special episode highlighting our...
The Hidden Life of “Our” Trees
The tropical rainforest of the Yucatán Peninsula, with its lush biodiversity and intricate ecosystems, offers a living testament to the themes explored in Peter Wohlleben’s The...
The Creation of Yucatán’s Cenote Wonders
The Chicxulub Crater and the Formation of the Yucatán Peninsula’s Cenotes Around 66 million years ago, the asteroid that formed the Chicxulub Crater not only triggered a...
Hurricane Season Begins in the Riviera Maya
On June 1st, the hurricane season officially began in the Riviera Maya. With the start of the Atlantic tropical cyclone season, Tulum is bolstering its...
Monkeys in the house
By: Amor Aline Saldaña Sánchez, Denise Spaan & Filippo Aureli. The project on the spider monkeys within the Los Árboles Tulum (hereafter LAT) began in...