FACTS ABOUT DEFORESTATION IN MEXICO
www.inecol.mx/inecol/index.php/es/ concludes that Veracruz is the Mexican state with the highest risk of deforestation. Predicts that over a 7-year period, 4% of forest land will be lost.
https://www.gob.mx/profepa deems that 108 areas in Mexico have a worrying rate of deforestation. The state of Veracruz has the highest number (9).
According to https://www.globalforestwatch.org/ Mexico lost 274,000-hectare forest land in 2016, and the numbers are increasing.
According to www.fao.org/home/es/, Mexico lost 3.2 million hectare of forest land between 2001-2017 equating a 6% loss. 34% of the fauna in Mexican forest is endemic and 12% will be lost in a few years if the deforestation continues at the current rate.
www.nasa.gov in a 2013 study – using Satellites – puts Mexico in top 3 among countries with deforestation (with indicators: Malaysia: 115, Nepal: 114 y Mexico: 92). Similar results are obtained in a recent study in a cooperation between Google & Matthew Hansen, University of Maryland.
https://www.greenpeace.org/mexico/ rates Mexico as the 5th ranked country with respect to deforestation.
A 2014 paper presented at the International Coffee Science Association (https://www.asic-cafe.org/) conference predicts that plunging coffee prices may be pressuring farmers to carve out land in rainforests for survival, and may drive deforestation by more than 100,000 hectares yearly – worldwide.
Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (https://www.kew.org) recently published a study in “Science Advances Journal” predicting that 60% of wild coffee species (there are approximately 124 In the world) are expected to become extinct due to deforestation, human settlement and climate change.