Hola. I’m Alex. My name is really Tito Alexander, but everyone calls me Alex. I live in San Miguelito, in the mountains of western El Salvador, next to El Imposible National Park. The park has been there all my life, but I wasn’t very interested in it before last year. When I was little, I remember hearing my uncle complain that the rangers wouldn’t let him hunt there since they turned it into a park.

I guess I never had an opinion about the park, even though most grown ups seemed to. Biologists from the group that runs El Imposible, SalvaNatura, visit my school and tell us how important it is. They say it’s the biggest national park in El Salvador, and has more different kinds of plants and animals than any other park. They say most of the forests in El Salvador were cut down long ago, which makes El Imposible very important. There are lots of trees around here, though, even outside the park, so I guess San Miguelito is special.

Alex Goes Exploring in El Imposible