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50 000 m3 of timber each year, warn
Acaxochitlan presence of bands, Hidalgo, June 26, 2007 .- Illegal logging is causing serious problems in Hidalgo. About 50 thousand cubic meters of wood is extracted illegally each year in the state, Marco Antonio Moreno says Gaytan, president of the Ecological Society of state.
entity, said in an interview, had 119 hectares of forest, but in a span of 15 years, about 87.4 percent have disappeared.
forests are no exception. Acaxochitlán Mayor, Miguel Angel de la Fuente López, accused, for their part, that in this town of Hidalgo operate at least four armed gangs of loggers from Puebla.
These groups, he says, use modern equipment to tear down the trees, and a telecommunications system allowing them to be connected in areas where cell phones have no signal.
The mayor referred to in a year and a half have been seized through various operational, 950 pieces of wood, and 80 rolls, besides arresting 34 suspected illegal logging.
The trouble spots for illegal logging, abundant, are Zacacuautla and the La Mesa.
"are organized groups that use satellite phones and have a 'ant': pull the tree and right there they saw planks through trucks carrying on special. The loggers are armed and paid 500 pesos for children up to inform them when the police go, "says a resident of this area.
Park National Chico in the Sierra de Pachuca, is another point in danger. By making a tour of the area, it was found that even at the edge of the road are hundreds of felled logs.
Petra Jimenez, a resident of the community of Pueblo Nuevo, says there are areas of the park that were previously forested and are now empty. Celso
Lazcano, responsible Chico National Park, denied that deforestation has argued that this area is developing the extraction of dead trees, so they break down about 12 thousand trees.
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