jared laurels
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday February 12, 2022, p. 12
In Mexico, it has been documented that women environmental activists are victims of community violence
. They leave their home at dawn to protect the turtles in the Comca’ac or Seris community, in Sonora, and they label them
to undermine their credibility and status within communities and discourage their peers from collaborating.
Specialists warned that this is an example that ecological crimes bring new patterns that aggravate
gender violence. Itza Castañeda, a gender consultant for the United Nations Development Program in Mexico, pointed out that environmental crimes are also the fourth most important form of organized crime.
in the conversation Gender and Wildlife Traffickingpointed that when there is a fragile State, poverty and inequality, these crimes generate greater problems for women
he expressed.
Carlos Mases, a researcher and expert in environmental criminalistics, indicated that a study in Oaxaca found that in the chain of wildlife trafficking, the closer it is to the local scale, the more women have more participation
in the transport, care and breeding of specimens as a means of survival. While a study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in some regions of Africa found that conflicts over access to scarce resources can lead to practices where fishermen refuse to sell fish to women except in exchange for sex
.
In addition, we found that human trafficking and forced labor
they are recurrent in wildlife poaching or illegal resource extraction, exploiting local communities.
