Guardians of the Canal: Women Restoring and Facing Climate Change in the Guatemalan Pacific

The Chiquimulilla Canal, in southern Guatemala, crosses mangroves, wetlands, villages and protected areas. For generations it has been the livelihood for thousands of families in that area of the country, but today climate change has changed everything: the rains are no longer like before, the waters rise without warning, the fish are barely visible and the fresh water becomes saltier when there is a shortage of rain. Life, as it was known in that place, no longer exists.