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Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 09:00
More than half of the country’s forestry is in community and Indigenous hands – and from CO 2 absorption to reducing poverty the results are impressive
Dexter Melchor Matías works in the Zapotec Indigenous town of Ixtlán de Juárez , about 1,600ft (490 metres) above the wide Oaxaca valley in Mexico , where community forestry has become a way of life. Like him, about 10 million people across the country live in and make a living from forests, with half of that population identifying as Indigenous.
As average temperatures soar around the world and wildfires rage across the Americas, in Mexico, where more than a quarter of the country suffers from drought, the number of wildfires has remained steady since 2012 .
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