Public-Private-NGO Conservation Alliance Invests $100 Million in Mexico

The main factors affecting these forests are illegal logging, low-tech legal timber harvesting, agriculture, high impact tourism, unsustainable cattle management, and forest fires, overexploitation and pollution of natural water springs, and climate change.

6. Chiapas State, together with Oaxaca, is Mexico's most biologically diverse area. There are 13 protected natural reserves covering 10 percent of the state's total area.