Overview
- Nine Greenpeace activists scaled Mexico City’s Estela de Luz before dawn on Sept. 23 to unfurl a 26–27 meter banner urging action for the Selva Maya, and city officials said no charges would be filed.
- Following the action, Semarnat met with Greenpeace and agreed to create intersecretarial, multisector working tables with participation from all three levels of government to address territorial planning in the Yucatán Peninsula.
- Authorities detailed ongoing enforcement, with Profepa reporting 64 closures of illegal real estate projects, inspections and cases against hog operations, tighter scrutiny of permits, and updates to land-use plans in Tulum, Bacalar, Benito Juárez, Isla Mujeres and Puerto Morelos.
- Officials also cited conservation steps including the Mexico–Guatemala–Belize Corredor Biocultural de la Gran Selva Maya that covers 5.7 million hectares and a Global Environment Facility project centered on jaguar coexistence.
- Greenpeace maintained its demand to pause new environmental authorizations for megaproyects until binding territorial ordering is in place, citing roughly 285–300 thousand hectares of recent forest loss, with both sides set to reconvene in the first week of November.