Environmental issues in Queretaro

Environmental issues in Queretaro

·         Deforestation: the deforestation in Queretaro is one of the begets problems that we are facing because La Sierra Gorda of Queretaro is one of the biggest preservation of forest that the Mexico has, but people have been cutting the trees down. In some part of Queretaro we have also illegal deforestation and day by day it is been increases.  “Between 1990 and 2000, Mexico lost an average of 347,600 hectares of forest per year”. (Mexico environmental profile, http://rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation). These humans’ activities affect the environment because when people cut down the trees we have less oxygen and as a result less air to breathe. Also the vegetation starts to disappear because that and they do not do project of reforestation to help the ecosystem. Currently some of the wildlife starts to emigrate or die, and we have been losing our animals.        

Garbage: the garbage in my biome is another big problem we are facing, because people have been thought too much garbage and soundly they pollute our rivers. Because the garbage in the rivers, on the streets, or everywhere peoples star to get seek, and specially children. “The Bordo Poniente landfill site has been in use since 1985. It covers an area of 600 hectares and was receiving 12,600 tonnes of waste a day, 7,000 of them from municipalities in the state of Mexico, adjacent to the Federal District (DF) or city proper, according to the capital city’s secretariat of works and services”. (Emilio Godoy, No One Wants Mexico City’s Garbage, http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/01/no-one-wants-mexico).

·         Water polluted: the water pollute is been increases because the humans’ activities. Because people pollute the water by dumping too much garbage and other materials the helps to increase the pollution and as a result the humans’ health. People drink polluted water because they don’t have another option but at the same time it is themselves fault because they don’t stop contaminating the water. “In México, one of the factors most affecting water related problems are its distribution. Currently, more than 12 million persons lack drinkable water, especially in rural areas”.(water problems Mexico, http://www.explorandomexico.com).

·         Chemicals: people have been use different chemicals in the field and it is because they want to grow their food as much fast as they could, and it is because they sale their product. When they use the chemicals in the field and then rains the water wash the soil and all this water goes to the rivers where people use to drink. This is why day by day more people get seek, and it is been increases.    

·         Born fossil fuels: Fossil-fuel carbon dioxide emissions from Mexico grew exponentially at a rate of 6.5% per year from 1891 to 1982. Since 1982, total fossil-fuel CO₂emissions have slowly grown and now stand at 130 million metric tons of carbon. Emissions growth over time has been due to increasing oil production and in 2008, 59.8% of emissions were from petroleum products, the highest fraction of crude oil dependence of the major CO₂-emitting countries. Per capita emissions (1.20 metric tons of carbon in 2008) are slightly below the global average. Consumption of natural gas has become increasingly important in Mexico and now accounts for 23.6% of fossil-fuel CO₂emissions. (Boden, T.A., G. Marland, and R.J. Andres. 2011, This page was last modified: 09/26/12.URL: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/tre_mex.html).

·          Hunt: the hunters in day by day are more and more and it is because in most places the police don’t have a specific punishment for those people. It is sad because currently the endangered species start to be gone and soon we don’t going to have too much diversity.