Mexican firm profits from reforestation, empowers Indigenous people

Mongabay
Dec 21, 2021, 9:19 am452 ptsHot
Local stories in Michoacán tell how, when the Spanish invaded what would later be known as Mexico in the 1500s, they found Indigenous communities tapping pine trees and using the resin in sizzling-bright torches and lamps that lit the Aztec Empire capital of Tenochtitlan, today’s Mexico City. The Spanish…

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