National parks across Latin America are facing a growing crisis: the spread of illegal human settlements within core conservation zones, driven by illegal logging, drug trafficking, extensive cattle ranching, slash-and-burn agriculture, illegal mining, wildlife trafficking, and unauthorized land occupation.

The consequences are severe: ecosystem fragmentation, habitat destruction, biodiversity loss, hydrological disruptions, increased forest fires, and the erosion of environmental governance.

The "REPORT TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY – HUMAN INVASIONS AND PRESSURE ON THE HEART OF THE MAYA FOREST AND OTHER TRANSBOUNDARY AREAS IN LATIN AMERICA" presents the situation in the Corazón de la Selva Maya and call upon IUCN, multilateral agencies, European cooperation, and global conservation institutions to:

• Exert diplomatic pressure on Mexico and Guatemala to strengthen institutional presence in protected areas.

• Provide strategic funding for permanent patrols, technology (drones, satellite communication), and control infrastructure.

• Raise global visibility of the imminent risk facing the Heart of the Maya Forest.

• Support legal and judicial initiatives to ensure strict prosecution of environmental crimes.

• Promote a coordinated trinational agenda for the management and protection of shared ecosystems.