One year after the Super Bowl season was marred by a ban on Mexican avocado shipments, another threat has emerged.
Men harvest avocados at an orchard in Santa Ana Zirosto, Michoacan state, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. , another threat has emerged: An environmental complaint that avocado growers are destroying forests that provide critical habitat for monarch butterflies and other creatures.
Julio Santoyo is part of a group of environmentalists in the town of Villa Madero, Michoacan where activists have suffered for years from kidnappings and threats fromSantoyo said he doesn't know who filed the complaint, but he supports it. Mexico has been the deadliest place in the world for environmental and land defense activists, according to a global survey by the nongovernmental group Global Witness, with 54 activists killed in 2021.
The complaint “asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws to protect forest ecosystems and water quality from the adverse environmental impacts of avocado production in Michoacán, Mexico,” according to the office. Shipments of avocados intended for consumption during the Super Bowl have already been sent north, so the complaint won’t effect on this year’s supply.
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