Overview

• The city began operations after a kickoff in Narvarte, starting with felling terminal specimens and planting native replacements.
• Authorities count about 15,000 Canary Island palms in the capital, with roughly 9,000 in lethal decline.
• Officials say 86% of the most affected palms are in Benito Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Coyoacán and Miguel Hidalgo, where work will be concentrated first.
• Roughly 200 personnel and 58 vehicles are deployed, including Sedema’s 120 specialists with cranes and root-removal equipment and SOBSE’s 70 workers and 33 units.
• Each removed palm will be destumped and replaced one-for-one with species such as duraznillo, tejocote, olmo and arrayán, and treated trunk wood will be reused as urban furniture.