Jennifer Kennedy and Richard Arghiris 

Richard Arghiris is a freelance writer and journalist based in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. He has previously written for Mongabay, Earth Island Journal, the North American Congress on Latin America, and Latin America New Dispatch. He has a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies and is currently doing postgraduate research on the ethnobiology of stingless bees.  .................................................................................................................................................................................. Jennifer Kennedy is a freelance journalist whose work covers human rights, the environment and conservation. Her work has appeared in Mongabay, The Independent and Earth Island Journal, among others. She has an MA in Latin American Studies from UCL and is currently a postgraduate researcher with the Leverhulme Extinction Studies Doctoral Training Programme at the University of Leeds.