Logging, murder and money: can Mexico’s ancient forests be saved from the cartels? | Deforestation
Decades ago, the children of Rochéachi village in the Sierra Tarahumara – pine-covered mountains of north-west Mexico’s Chihuahua state – would run through the forest by night. In the rainy season, they would collect fireflies whose glimmering light would flicker through the hollows of the pine trees. “We had peace. We used to walk and…
