looters can come and they are really well organised, and they can take everything from you. one day, we hired a group of guards to protect it. but it didn't work because some of them tried to steal from the tomb. i confront them, one of them took his gunshot, at that time, i think i was a good liar, i said this is a computer, we have internet — that we did not have — and i said we were filming everything. then he stopped. another major challenge for the maya biosphere reserve is illegal logging, often tied to drug trafficking. and when the jungle is cleared, it does notjust affect the rainforest and the animals, but the maya sites which are often irretrievably damaged. they will clear around the archaeological sites, grow marijuana, loot the sites, and then collect to harvest.