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Indigenous communities reforest Mexican desert

23 March 2022

Indigenous communities transform a Mexican desert landscape into forest

In Tepejillo, on one of the many hills in the southern Mexican municipality of San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca, extreme erosion has transformed the earth into bare rock, making it difficult to imagine that the area used to be home to a forest or, even more incredibly, a civilization.

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