A retaining pond sits amid an avocado plantation bordering a pine forest in the Indigenous township of Cheran, Michoacan state, Mexico Thursday, January 20, 2022. Regular citizens have taken the fight against illegal logging into their own hands in the pine-covered mountains of western Mexico. Over the last decade they have seen illegal logging clear the hillsides for plantations of water hungry avocado trees. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)
