Reinhardtia elegans

The taxon is potentially threatened by deforestation due to land-use change for agricultural activities like coffee plantations. And to a lesser extent, but also causing impact to the taxon is road construction. At the moment these roads are terracerías (dirt roads) which are very likely to be paved in the future causing even further damage to the habitat and the population. In Chiapas and Oaxaca, the forests have been subjected to human disturbance over a prolonged period, as traditional land use involved shifting agriculture followed by land abandonment, providing opportunities for the forest to recover. However, this traditional form of land use is now being abandoned, and agriculture is increasingly being intensified in fixed locations through fertilizers, limiting forest opportunities. There is clear evidence of interactions between fragmentation and other anthropogenic impacts. The following forms of anthropogenic disturbance are chronic and widespread: logging of timber, fuelwood cutting, browsing by livestock, and development of infrastructure (principally roads) (Arroyo-Rodíguez et al. 2015).