Smaller than the Amazon, the Selva Maya is shrinking to an area regarding the size of Dallas, according to Global Forest Watch, a nonprofit organization that monitors deforestation.
A horse-drawn carriage passes trees that are burned to make room for crops, in the Mennonite community of Valle Nuevo, Campeche, where the Mennonites arrived in the 1980s. Some 8,000 square kilometers of forest, almost a fifth part of the state’s tree cover has been lost in the last 20 years, denounces Global Forest Watch.
