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Welcome
to the New Natural History Musuem of the Peten!!!
We welcome everyone to
come and visit our new musuem in the Nueva Juventud Ecological Park in
San Andres, Peten. The Musuem is open from 8:00 am to 6:00pm
everyday. Exhibits include geology, insects, amphibians,
reptiles, birds, mammals, night life, and water. There are live
exhibits of snakes, turtles, fish, lobsters, and crabs.
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In January 2005, we began
construction of a Natural History Museum of the Peten in the Parque
Ecologico Nueva Juventud in San Andres, Peten. The building is
planned to be completed in July 2005. Donations from The
Rufford
Small Grants and the US Fish and Wildlife Service
were used to
create all the exhibits for the museum, exhibitions for the
interpretive trail, and educational programs associated with the new
museum and the ecological park. Exhibitions
were designed and
created by Inoky Cameros, and focus on the biodiversity of
plants, insects, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals that
exist in the Peten. We inaugurated the
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We built the Natural
History Museum from scratch with the help of international volunteers
and 2 local workers (Genaro Mendez and David Diaz).
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