In the forest-covered mountains of Mexico City 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 rings out nearby.
FILE - Mexican National Guards protect local farmers as they plant pine saplings in a recently deforested area in the San Miguel Topilejo borough of Mexico City, Aug. 13, 2023. Illegal logging is particularly acute in San Miguel Topilejo, which, because it has forests and is crossed by highways, makes it an attractive place for gangs to cut logs and move them to sawmills.
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.
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.According to data from the country's attorney general for environmental protection, there have been 122 illegal logging complaints since 2013 in Mexico City, with more than half of those so far in 2023.
Riding next to him is a 58-year-old ranger who says he was shot in his abdomen by illegal loggers he tried to stop in November. A year before he says he was forced to flee his community after his family received threats.for environmental and land defense activists, according to a 2022 report by the nongovernmental group Global Witness. Mexico saw 54 activists killed in 2021, the highest number in the world.
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