MEXICO: Calderon's Claims Of Greening Nation Ring Hollow.

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President Calderon's proposals have come under criticism in Mexico, where failed programs, scandals and delays have cast doubt on the government’s ability to fix its own environmental problems, let alone promote international accords. Even with Calderon's ProArbol tree program, Mexico still loses roughly 500,000 hectares of forest yearly, ranking it among the five most heavily deforested countries in the world. ProArbol is supposed to reforest 400,000 hectares of forest per year, but an audit found ProArbol only planted 341,000 in 2007, despite spending all of its funds. And a survey found that ONLY 8 percent of the trees it planted two years ago actually survived.