Mexico’s federal environmental enforcement agency, Profepa, has determined that a giant commercial exhibition complex planned for an area south of Cancún must submit an environmental-impact study, handing opponents a victory in their attempt to stop the project. The development, called Dragon Mart Cancún, must also show that it is in compliance with the federal forestry law, according to a May 13 statement Profepa issued after inspectors visited the site. The Mexican real estate investors behind the development argue that federal environmental law does not apply to their project because it is too far from the sea to affect the coastal environment and because the site’s vegetation is not the original forest, but scrub known as “acahual” that has grown over land that had been... [Log in to read more]