Abstract

n a typical hot, sunny afternoon last summer, Mexican fisherman Armando Lopez anchored his boat to the pier near his home and began sorting the day's catch of lobster. A few moments later, on the other side of the pier, US biologist David Miller pulled up in another boat filled with research equipment and four US high school teachers and students working as volunteers on his lobster habitat study. As the volunteers snapped photographs, Lopez and Miller swapped stories on their morning's activities. After unloading the boats, all six headed across a dirt road to the Cuzan Guest House, run by Lopez and his partner Sonja Lillvik, for a lunch of fresh lobster ceviche. That all these activities took place within a biosphere reserve known as Sian Ka'an might be a visitor's first clue that these reserves have little in

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