Mexico’s Mennonites: A troubling pattern of deforestation

Mexico’s Mennonites: A troubling pattern of deforestation

Coakee William Wildcat of the Oklahoma Seminole Nation, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Mother Tree Food and Forest, works in agroecology restoration around the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, combining progressive ecosystem restoration methodology and ancestral traditions. Among the issues that concern him the most are those of the Mennonites in Mexico. “We have Mennonites buying up all the Indigenous land on the Mexican side (of the M…