Mexicans fighting to save their forests -- from cartels

AFP English 2011-05-06

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Mexico's powerful criminal organizations are expanding their reach, moving beyond drugs, prostitution and urban ills... to the environment. Their methods of extortion and corruption are abetting the illegal logging that is encroaching on the country's remaining forests. In one rural community in Michoacan state, residents are taking drastic measures to demand government help to save their livelihood, which depends on those trees. Duration: 02:23.

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