Destruction of fog forests in Veracruz, biological diversity and water supply

One of the great extension of the foggy forests that was previously in the state of Vericrose, there are only seven nuclei or archipelago in the capital area, xalapa, mainly due to urbanization. On the national level, only 1 % remains and lost something slowly.

in spite of Environmental Institute It has maintained a strong defense to avoid invading this tape, in recent years, it has lost the battle, and part of it is observed with the conquest of housing, which is not only irregular settlements.

The extension of the registered medium forests area consists of 5,580 hectares distributed in the municipality of Xalapa, Banderilla, Coatepec and Tlalnelhuayocan, but “extermination” is “extermination”.

In 2017, the Environmental Science Institute achieved the preservation of 420 hectares issued as a protected natural area with a suggestion that these forests surrounded by herbal lands, coffee farms or cities that remained in islands in the middle of the scene have already been left as a “archipelago”.

A recent publication of UNAM indicates that the removal of forests and climate change threaten fog forests. Appointment in the specialized magazine sciencesThis indicates in an article by researcher Santiago Ramirez Parahuna that “the removal of forests and global warming are transforming these ecosystems quickly that foreshadows danger.”

This means that we may lose a lot of biological diversity of fogal forests in the coming decades. “

Armando Conteraras, director of the Institute of Environment, said that the social process is very complicated and economic interests on environmental values ​​that give priority.

This is a meaningless closure because we do not realize that we can live near nature with the lower dispensing elements, with the position of recycling materials, reusing what has been created to facilitate life, and expanding the use of these materials that he said in the time of our ancestors: Nothing is lost, nothing exists, “I explain that everything exists.

Rancho Guadalobi himself, owned by the Institute, is part of the INECOL complex, was the subject of an irregular colony called El Guayabo, xalapa. Dozens of irregular settlements are large accessories from the ground.

Previously, researchers and environmental authorities have fought the problem and slowed this practice with Ambros, which prevented her from continuing to continue, but from time to date, on the threshold of the hills where these settlements are located, there are wide structures, inhabiting another kind that was apparent.

Contreras Armando, says everything risks. “We are at risk like all kinds of life. Humans do not have a permanent guarantee, in addition to TLACUACHE suddenly comes out of its location and meets some predators or in an accident. Life is risk, so we must live, there is nothing that guarantees us tomorrow.

No one was able to provide information related to these housing, which justifies that in the past periods of the administration, the construction may have been granted.

In some cases, in some cases, the uncontrolled growth of the urban spot and ignorance caused great extensions from the lands inside this natural reserve by the invaders to create new colonies, while others are prohibited from the interest of political services, the alleged donations of national or foreign companies, under the pretext of establishing new sources of employment lines and street lines.

There is this towards the mountain, in the area where there is currently the cultivation of potatoes, real estate development projects are what will come, and the population of the five region.

They lose more than a hectare

Rafael Bravo, who heads the organization we give, explained that the gradually missing tape of the fog forest has been given through changes in the lifestyle of the population and their diving.

Bravo noted that the arrival of potato cultivation has disappeared hundreds of weaken and also caused the loss of species, breaking a chain.

He pointed out that one of the most attacking groups through forest loss and the use of agricultural chemicals in sowing in wet areas is the amphibians that depend on 100 % of the water and are vulnerable to pollutants.

Only the amphibians are one of the most affected groups, so I dare say that more ignorance in this aspect is because they are barely seen; However, what is the seminas, frogs and frogs are strongly affected directly by agricultural chemicals, through pollution and the loss of water sources, “explained by the Director of INECOL.

These types are added other types of samples that can be attached directly to the ground or water, and being animals that benefit from various water bodies, both mammals and birds, are also affected.

The removal of forests in the average forest bar by farms in high areas has deteriorated the ecosystem. This deficiency in the forest also leads to the displacement of species because with no trees comes a lack of water. He said that the effect is silent, because in the absence of water, the temperature increases and the drought that causes deaths or displacement.

Species like gray fox are one of the most threatening species, as well as cookies and all types of reptiles, lizards and snakes like the wrong coral.

They also reported the loss of birds, treatment, carpenters, and migratory birds that cross and no longer find the place of the nest.

Medium mountain forest animals, with this type of practices that hold the ecosystem loss by cutting, either the issue of homes or crops, because it is one of the main reasons that make bird roads change. “For a long time and they have no place to rest, they find, they have a lower chance of food and die,” he said.

Anxiety is water

In the midst of the debate about the removal of forests, the change of agriculture and the use of chemicals, there is the biggest anxiety is the loss of moisture of the ecosystem that provides water to a large part of the region surrounding the fog forest. Coatepec and Xalapa are beneficiaries of mountain ponds and continue to lose forest hectares, and there is also a significant lack of liquid.

The exploitation of sand, which are the main natural filters, water -waters in springs and loss of trees, as well as filtering the nominated material through the use of agricultural chemicals, puts 40 % of the total water that supplies the country’s capital, and the biologist Edwaro Aranda, which is part of the movement in defending the Pixoyak River.

“If we do not take care of this basin, no one will do, much less than the fog forest,” he said.

There are also fog forests in Chiabas, Oakaka, Veracrose, Heidalgo and the northern part of Poella, as well as some in Yero, Niarrit and Galissco.

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