Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques 348d ago

In many of these ejidos, groups of womenwork collectively on reforestation projects and family gardens. These ejidos are part of the General Hermenegildo Galeana Union of Forestry and Agricultural Ejidos, created more than 40 years ago in response to an injustice: companies were extracting timber from communal forests without consulting the communities who lived in and cared for those territories. To stop this exploitation and make their voices heard, several ejidos organized and founded the Union.