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Rosewood Hostility Causes Shots Fired At Ya'xche'?
posted (January 25, 2013)
There are signs tonight that the Rosewood War is dangerously escalating. The Forestry Department issued a release today saying that on Wednesday morning at 1:20, several shots were fired at the Field Station of Ya'axche' Conservation Trust which is situated near Golden Stream Village on the Southern Highway in Toledo.

Ya'axche' co-manages the Bladen Nature Reserve, and has been working with the Forest Department to stop the illegal extraction and trafficking of Rosewood. The release says, that the shooting is an act of retaliation against the recent rosewood crackdwon.

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