My ethnographic research focuses on the transformations in the ways in which the Maya Macehual people relate to the tropical environment, brought about by their participation in international green extractivism projects and the commodification of the forest in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico). During my stay as a doctoral fellow at the CMB until June 2024, I am interested in the historical, technical and political aspects of the design and implementation of these environmental projects based on the exploitation of nature, conceived in the 1980s by forest engineers from the now extinct Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). I also want to explore the imaginaries of the environment and indigenous otherness that motivate the recent development of the carbon offsetting market by German companies in the Mayan communities in my region of fieldwork.