PHOTOS: Wildlife puts Mexican president's refinery plans at risk via yahoophoto
Even before Lopez Obrador took office last December, work had begun to cut down protected woodland on Pemex land on the coast of Tabasco state to make room for the new refinery next to the Port of Dos Bocas.
Gustavo Alanis, president of the Mexican Center of Environmental Law advocacy group, said Pemex will run into legal problems if it continues to act recklessly over the Dos Bocas refinery. The land, near the town of Paraíso, where the new refinery is planned, was planted with coconut and citrus fruit in the 1970s and expropriated by Pemex. But the company never used the land, and tropical woodland and wildlife flourished.
The land was so rich in wildlife about a decade ago that a group of Pemex executives proposed that it be declared a private nature reserve to prevent future building there, company sources said. A study by a government institute several years ago concluded Paraiso was a risky location for a refinery because of the biodiversity found there.
After the land was cleared, four threatened or protected species were rescued, including a type of porcupine, a boa constrictor and a rare iguana. Reuters could not establish the fate of the other animals the agency detected at the site. Lopez Obrador has not commented on ASEA's January's ruling about the clearing of the land. In its ruling, the environmental regulator also ordered the replanting of a larger mangrove area, whose location is yet to be determined, and the launching of a wildlife preservation program.
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