A study conducted in 2017 by the Center for Research in Applied Biological Sciences (CICBA) of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM) showed that the rabbit teporingo in the Nevado de Toluca is extinct.

This species had been threatened with extinction since 1966 and in research since the end of the 1980s they pointed to its disappearance, which biologists regard as a sign of attention to humanity in the absence of conservation of their habitat.

According to information from UNAM Overall, prognoses made since 1994 showed that for 2050 zones, including the Nevado de Toluca, serious repercussions would occur as the ability to retain water due to urban growth and agricultural activities affecting the forest of Xinantécatl.

The rabbit zacatuche, since this species is also known, was officially considered a species that had been in danger since 1994, said the sub-coordinator of priority species of the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (Conabio), Esther Quintero Rivero.

Before 2003, the biologist Gerardo Ceballos González, an academic of UNAM, had already considered him extinct as the Nevado de Toluca.

apparently, the last time you hit the teporingo (Romerolagus diazi) in the Nevado de Toluca it happened in August 2003; In addition, three latrines were found with faeces with different decomposition states.

It was last year that the VAEM went looking for teporingo for six months for the places where it would normally be located.

In more than 200 sampled locations we found in just over a hundred samples of rabbits, which basically tells us that there are few rabbits in Toluca's snow, and every time there is less, this house of studies said.

Cheating cameras were placed for research, although after six months of sampling, no photographic evidence obtained teporingo.

Esther Quintero indicated that we each time have less habitat for the species, because it is destroyed to make crops, especially potatoes, which generates a cascade of consequences.

Finally, Octavio Monroy Vilchis, Coordinator of the VAIC CICBA, confirmed that the studies carried out in the area confirm that "there is less and less vegetation, forest cover and fewer vertebrates".

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