By MARK LORENZANA The Chapultepec Zoo, located in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, is the oldest and best-known wildlife park in the country. It is also home to the only reproductive colony in the world of teporingos, also known as zacatuches or volcano rabbits, which are an endemic and highly endangered species. However, the capital government has allegedly collected millions of
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By MARK LORENZANA The soil of the fourth section of Mexico City’s Chapultepec Forest, which is currently being developed as a new tourist area with a number of added attractions, was found to be contaminated with high levels of mercury and arsenic, exceeding the limits allowed by the Official Mexican Standard (NOM) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Chapultepec Forest’s
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By MARK LORENZANA According to a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Sunday, June 12, the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “is shifting the country to a 1970s industrial policy” and has resorted to “greater state intervention” by targeting privately owned energy firms legally operating in Mexico and “backing state-run energy giants.” The WSJ
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Toto, the last surviving orangutan in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Zoo, has died, the city’s Environment Secretariat (Sedema) reported late Wednesday, Dec. 8. Toto, a male ape that was donated to Mexico by the Indonesian government, was one month short of reaching age 30. According to zoo sources, he had begun to be listless and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The problems with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s controversial Santa Lucía Airport project just keep adding up. In addition to work delays and over-expenditures, a high rate of workplace accidents and countless lawsuits over its prioritization and the cancelation of the previous private-sector New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) — not to mention the
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico City has started 2021 with a ban on single-use plastics throughout the capital, according to Mexico City’s Secretariat of Environment (Sedema). As of Jan. 1, 2021, the marketing, distribution and sale of single-use disposable plastics is no longer allowed in Mexico’s capital. Under the new ban, all plastic cutlery, straws, plates, cotton swabs, balloons, single-use coffee
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