The extent of the devastation is astonishing, say groups and local residents who seek to preserve the forest that recharges aquifers and helps clean the polluted air.
It’s a strange scene: in the forest-covered mountains of Mexico City — which most people outside Mexico don’t know exist — a brigade of farmers and forest rangers plant inches-high pine saplings in a recently cut stand of trees, even as the sound of chainsaws can be heard nearby.
It would not be a far stretch: Such gangs have long used the rural communities on the city’s edge to set up safehouses to hold kidnapping victims and its forests as dumping ground for the bodies of their victims.crackdown on the sale of contraband gasoline and diesel In 2010, forests covered about 100,000 acres of the city’s total area of 370,000 acres , according to the activist group Global Forest Watch.
Mexican National Guards protect local farmers as they plant pine saplings in a recently deforested area in Mexico City, on Aug. 13.Pablo Amezcua, a natural resources engineer who works in San Miguel Topilejo, said that before 2020, only about 500 acres had been affected by logging. Amezcua says that by mid-2023, a total of about 6,000 acres had been fully or partially cut.
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