Dec. 8, 2010 /EIN Presswire/ – One of the topics of the U.N. climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, centered on a new approach to logging in Mexican jungles that is protecting jaguars and other endangered species.

Using a new system referred to as community forest management, land ownership is given to local villagers so that they harvest timber more conscientiously and damage the forest less than industrial loggers.

In the attempt to create sustainable forestry, part of the climate talks were aimed at creating incentive for native foresters to log carefully since rampant deforestation releases dangerous amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

Mexico has lost 383,00 acres to deforestation in the last five years, according to Mexico’s forestry monitor, Comision Nacional Forestal.

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