Wearing reflective vests and jeans, the biologist consultants of the Mexico City Airport Group caught a hare between the bushes of what will become the third runway of the New Mexico City International Airport, in a remote location north of former Lake Texcoco. These consultants have been hired by the new airport’s builders to minimize the number of animals and plants killed by road rollers, layers of compacted tezontle rock, or the asphalt serving as substrate for numerous airplane landings. This search is more symbolic than effective, given the size of the land and the time remaining before the schedule brushes aside the environmental impact agenda: many small animals will be accidentally buried as anonymous casualties. With the accelerated pace of soil change brought along by the construction, the creatures will virtually be fossils by the airport’s opening date. The scientific name of the animal is Lepus californicus, known in Spanish as “liebre cola negra” (black-tailed jackrabbit). [...]
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