Corporate Leader of the Year Award Recipient picks FARES’ Mirador Basin as project of choice. Star actor and environmentalist Mel Gibson speaks passionately at Grant Thornton’s event.
The inaugural recipient of Grant Thornton’s Corporate Leader of the Year Award has nominated the Foundation for Anthropological Research and Environmental Studies (FARES) as his chosen worthy cause
Formed in 1996, FARES is a non-profit research dedicated to the scientific study of humanity and environment through conservation, education and responsible development.
Its chairman Mel Gibson hopes that the award will help highlight FARES’ biggest undertaking yet: the Mirador Basin project in Guatemala that seeks to protect both the Basin’s large number of archaeological finds and its rainforest.
“There are many challenges threatening our mission, including farming, looting and commercial development,” said Mr Gibson. “With Grant Thornton’s help, we will stop these harmful practices and meet our goal of turning the Mirador Basin into a hotspot for eco-tourism that will benefit Guatemala economically and environmentally which in turn will serve to benefit the entire world.”
The principal objectives of FARES are:
- Scientific archaeological research and environmental studies in the Mirador Basin area of northern Guatemala. FARES sponsors the Mirador Basin Project which is currently exploring the origins, dynamics, and demise of early Maya civilization.
- The preservation of the tropical rainforest in northern Guatemala and the Mesoamerican Lowlands. The forest in this region is highly threatened, but can provide new economic benefits for communities and the Republic of Guatemala through the establishment of world class archaeological parks and natural preserves. FARES is assisting the government of Guatemala in the improvement of a vasr conservation system in northern Guatemala which will have long-term preservation and development benefits.
- Establishment of educational and career development programmes for communities surrounding the Mirador Basin dealing with health, agricultural techniques, eco-tourism, financial management, reforestation, literacy, wilderness and national monument management and forestry.
This comprehensive development approach will assist in the formation of a strong, multi-disciplinary, and systematic effort to understanding human behaviour and cultural relationship too the environment from both an ancient and contemporary perspective.
FARES Research Office : 164 W. 400 N., Rupert. Idaho 83350
(208) 436-FARE (3273), (208) 436-9185 Fax (208) 436-0181
Guatemala: (502) 2261-2825 Fax (502) 2261-2824
www.fares-foundation.org www.miradorbasin.com
Corporate Leader of the Year Award
SJ Grant Thornton Awards its inaugural Corporate Leader of the Year at a grand event on July 15th.
Grant Thornton Award
Corporate Leader of the Year Award Recipient picks FARES’ Mirador Basin as project of choice. Star actor and environmentalist Mel Gibson speaks passionately at Grant Thornton’s event.