Carmelita12 forest concessions lose US aid before fire season.
Their community-managed forest has protected about 484,000 hectares while neighbouring land was rapidly deforested.
The US Agency for International Development funded equipment, mills and wildfire advice since 1990, and communities now rely on timber and honey.
About 27,000 hectares of protected land burn in Guatemala each year, and the figure balloons in El Niño years.
How each outlet framed it
- Dialogue Earth leans favorable
- centers on Carmelita's community concessions, which protect about 484,000 hectares under a 1994 lease model, and reframes USAID's role through that local success story
Sources: Dialogue Earth