date:Sep 12, 2018
Mexican authorities closed 22.97 hectares of illegal orchards which had cut down 1,162 trees in order plant avocados, stated the environmental prosecutor on Friday, September 7, 2018.
1,162 pine and oak trees were felled and uprooted with the help of heavy machinery, affecting an approximate volume of 713 cubic meters in total tree volume, the authorities stated.
The closure took place in the west of the state of Michoacan, the most important avocado producing region in the country. On the sur