Nevado de Toluca: Mexico Loses a National Park Tim Johnson - McClatchyDC
go to original October 23, 2013

Nevado de Toluca (AbrahamLevyMexico)

Earlier this month, Mexicans awoke to the news that the towering and historic Nevado de Toluca National Park no longer exists.

Now, it is a “protected area,” rather than a national park. Apparently, degradation within the park’s boundaries was such that bureaucrats decided to make what was illegal legal and try to enforce regulations on clear cutting and mining.

Nevado de Toluca was declared a national park in 1936 and encompasses a volcano that is the fourth highest peak in Mexico at 15,387 feet. While deforestation has been intense, there are large extensions of firs, pines and alpine meadows. Getting to it heights only takes about a two-hour drive from Mexico City.

... “This represents a mockery of Mexico’s environmental commitment to the world, and a shameful act that no environmental authority or ecological group has condemned,” Jose Luis Luege wrote in El Universal.

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