Illegal logging is on the rise in Mexico, according to human rights groups and environmental watchdogs. Mexico’s federal environmental protection agency (Profepa) estimates that anywhere between 30% and 70% of all wood harvested in Mexico is the product of the clandestine practice. Often happening in tandem with drug trafficking-related crime, it has led to widespread indiscriminate violence, targeted killings of activists, and human rights abuses, facilitated by corruption and incompetence on the part of the authorities. On 1 June, local NGO Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social AC (Cencos) issued a call for the government to implement a plan against illegal logging, reiterating demands made by other civil society organisations in recent weeks. End of preview - This article contains approximately 790 words.
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