Community development for El Pilar is complex, involving local desires for a better life and global concerns for environmental quality. In recognizing potentially competing objectives, the El Pilar Program unites these goals by linking the cultural and natural resource conservation of El Pilar to the regional development agenda. Amigos de El Pilar, a community-based organization composed of local villagers and situated in Bullet Tree Falls, has formed around the Program as partner and beneficiary of development plans. They are the ultimate stewards of El Pilar.
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