John,

The Maya Forest is like Mexico’s Amazon — home to rare and threatened species like jaguars, tapirs, and howler monkeys — and the heartland of Indigenous communities stretching back centuries.

But it’s about to get torn open -- for a multi-billion dollar “tourist train”!

One tiny local group is fighting it with everything they have — but they have literally 4 staff. They’ve filed a legal challenge, but without urgent funding for constitutional experts and lawyers, legal fees, and research, the case will go nowhere.

This is a true David vs. Goliath story, exactly what our community does best. If 5000 of us chip in today, we can ramp up our fight and get these brave nature defenders the cash they need in days — without the mountains of paperwork and red tape, and months of waiting, that they just can’t afford.

Can you chip in to save Mexico’s Amazon?

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Mexico’s President Lopez Obrador is doing whatever he can to ram through construction: staging referendums, attacking critics in the press, even issuing a Presidential decree to force officials to automatically grant permits without any ecological or humanitarian regulatory checks. He says he’s going to bring in the army to get it done!

But legal experts say this whole vanity project is unconstitutional. The President can try to bypass his own government, but he can’t ignore the court.

That’s why our partner on the ground is taking immediate legal action to fight the train. It’s the last stand for the rights of local Indigenous people, their forests, and all the animals they share it with. But with just 4 staff and no major donors, they simply cannot do this without our help. Can you chip in to save Mexico’s Amazon?

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This forest is one of the most crucial biodiversity hotspots on the planet. It’s the second largest rainforest in the Americas, after the Amazon. And it’s an ancient home of Mayan Indigenous communities.

It’s already under threat from cattle ranching, agriculture, and forest fires. It won’t survive the addition of a massive tourist infrastructure project.

But our community has stood with indigenous defenders of rainforests from Brazil to Indonesia. Today we can take that fight to Mexico — and give them a fighting chance to win.

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