Overview

• Members of Greenpeace México staged a symbolic occupation of Semarnat’s Cancún office to protest ongoing approvals for material-extraction sites.
• Semarnat’s 2025 Gaceta Ecológica lists nearly 30 new quarry permits, 26 of which are linked to the Tren Maya railway project.
• One permit authorizes Cemex to clear 650 hectares of virgin forest near Tulum for a new material-extraction bank.
• Activists say extractive operations have cleared almost 10,000 hectares of jungle and that many quarries dig below the water table, endangering the region’s interconnected aquifer.
• Greenpeace is calling on Semarnat to revoke recent authorizations, convene a multisectoral dialogue and establish binding legal safeguards for the Maya jungle.