Village-scale reserves in the forest frontier regions of Chenes and Calakmul, Mexico

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Figure 1. Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: the Chenes and Calakmul study areas, the location of Elizondo and López Merlín (2009) study, and the approximate extent of fundos legales (periurban multiuse forest reserves, sensu Levy Tacher et al., 2016). Land cover classes based on ‘tree cover’ layer in Hansen et al. (2013), ‘intact forest landscape’ layer in Greenpeace (2013), and author’s interpretation of 2018 LANDSAT imagery.

Table 1. Frequency of village-scale reserve types in study communities, as documented in semi-structured, sketch-map-facilitated group interviews. DAVFR = deliberate, autochthonous, village-scale forest reserve. GCR = government-certified reserve.

Region, culture type, and settlement era	Land tenure	DAVFR(s) present	GCR(s) present, by type	De facto CUA(s) >5 ha in community
Chenes (n = 6) indigenous Maya villages in forest-agriculture mosaic	all social	1 verified 1 possible	PES: 5 (83%)	5 (83%)
Calakmul (n = 16) 20th-century non-indigenous settlements in forest frontier	14 social, 2 private	verified possible	PES: 13 (81%) ADVC: 2 approved, 1 pending 1 other	9 (56%)
TOTAL in above categories (n = 22)	N.A.	verified possible	PES: 18 (82%) ADVC: 2 (9%)	14 (64%)
Chenes (n = 1) 21st-century Mennonite settlement in forest-agriculture mosaic	private	no	no	no

Figure 2. (a) Village-scale reserve types in the Calakmul study area; (b) Village-scale reserve types, land tenure classes, and forest cover change (2000–2010) in the Chenes study area. DAVFR = deliberate, autochthonous, village-scale forest reserve.

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