China can help solve Mexico’s illegal logging crisis
Action against suppliers and buyers in markets such as China is urgently needed to protect endangered Mexican rosewood.Dialogo Chino, 30 August 2019
Mexico, China, Timber, Illegal logging, rosewood, Pterocarpus erinaceus Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) to Host Latin American Beef Sustainability Summit
The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) along with Arcos Dorados (world’s largest independent McDonald’s franchisee), GTPS, and with support from the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, will host a Latin American Sustainable Beef Summit July 10-12, 2019 in São Paulo, Brazil.Perishable News, 19 June 2019
Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Beef, GRSB 3,000 people form a human chain in protest of illegal logging in Ocuilan
Given the indifference of the authorities for curbing the illegal and indiscriminate felling of trees, which has led to the disappearance of approximately 3 percent of the forest each year, more than three thousand people from different localities made a human chain throughout the municipality.The Mazatlan Post, 14 June 2019
Mexico, Timber, deforestation, Illegal logging, forest fire Illegal tree felling at Michoacán’s Monarch Butterfly Reserve to plant avocado trees
Staff of the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa), in coordination with agents of the Federal Police Gendarmerie (Environmental Division), closed an estate located in the municipality of Ocampo, in the Mexican state of Michoacan, for making the change of land use in forest territory without having the authorization issued by the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat).The Yucatan Times , 18 May 2019
Mexico, Timber, Mexico