Drug trafficking groups have assumed control of forest production in entities such as Jalisco, Michoacán and Guerrero , warned a report from the Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Forestry (CCMSS), In these states the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) and the La Familia Michoacana Cartel (LFM) operate mainly.
The forests of southern Jalisco, an area where, the main productive region of the entity, alert, are practically administered by criminals.
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“It is the chiefs of the criminal groups who decide where to cut, how much, who does it and how much should be paid for it.”
“They also charge protection fees and define to which sawmill in the region the product should be destined.”
“The most advanced forest ejidos in Jalisco until four or five years -Barranca del Calabozo and El Empedrado- have been forced by organized crime to suspend or continue the activities of their sawmills and drying stoves, but under the control of criminal gangs ”, Details the report.
Presented yesterday, the report Forest Production in Mexico: Advances and Setbacks, indicates that Michoacán has registered one of the most marked falls in recent years.
Almost 1.4 million cubic meters of roundwood produced in 2000 and 2001, details, has passed less than 500 thousand from 2010.
“Changes in land use for avocado orchards, clandestine logging and organized crime are the factors that originated this collapse in forest production ”, he points out.
While in Guerrero, alert, community forestry companies have faced great pressure from organized crime.
In the Costa Grande, the most important forest region of this entity, he points out, the murders of two community leaders in 2016 Y 2017 have inhibited forestry development and discouraged social and private enterprises in the sector.
The result, he indicates, is that Gu errero registers a downward forest production in recent 20 years.
It is also noted that legal forest production faces competition from cheap wood from the United States, bureaucracy in the process of obtaining logging permits and the high costs of various requirements for sustainable forest management.
The timber trade balance of Mexico with the United States, he refers, registered a deficit of one thousand 397 million dollars between 2015 Y 2020 .
“The country needs to increase its production by taking advantage of the potential of the area with the possibility of being incorporated into community forest management and its installed industrialization capacity to take advantage of the opportunity offered by the domestic market and, thus, compete go with imports from various countries.
“Achieving competitiveness requires having timely permits and procedures related to forestry activity and the documentation that protects the legal origin of the wood. Otherwise, these market niches will be supplied by other producers, perhaps illegal or imported ”, highlights the Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Forestry.
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