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An indigenous woman from Bolivia looks at the new high Indigenous tech map on May 12, 2016, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The new high tech map was produced in collaboration with 3,500 indigenous people in the region, financing from National Geographic and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the map stretches from the Mayan Biosphere in Guatemala to the Darien National Park in Panama, representing a groundbreaking effort to capture the presence of hundreds of thousands of indigenous peoples in MesoAmerica, and their role in managing the region's remaining natural resources. / AFP / EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ (Photo credit should read EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AFP via Getty Images)