Hernández’s buying ejido land for conservation and creating a conservation trust scheme is a de facto privatization of nature. This is part of the programs and policies being supported by the United Nations Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+ program) for climate change mitigation of which Mexico has been a promoter through CONAFOR (National Comission of Forestry). Hernandez, along with his wife, has created a conservation trust called Fundación Claudia y Roberto Hernández (FCRH) with the intention of promoting ecosystem services (carbon capture credits). This arrangement entails one of Mexico’s wealthiest individuals, Roberto Hernandez (a former Banamex bank owner), buying ejido rights from individuals residing in towns from Tulum and extending to the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve in what is known as the Zona Maya (See map). Pressures not only from tourism development, but also from land tenure changes and land speculation are beginning to create increased tensions within Mayan communities between people that want to continue the current system of communal land tenure (“ ejido”) and those that feel pressure to sell their ejido rights to potentially offer land for development or for a recent biodiversity conservation scheme that is happening in the communities around the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve. The Maya of central Quintana Roo and their environment have undergone enormous transformations in recent years.