Environmental campaigners are working to protect this stunning marine life in Baja California.
“It became such a famous place,” Mittermeier says. “And now people are saying, ‘Oh, we need more Cabo Pulmos.’”SeaLegacy and Beta Diversidad, along with other environmentalists, are working to make that happen, leading a movement to create a protective zone that will fit like a sock over the southern half of Baja California—where the peninsula’s greatest biodiversity is found—extending into the waters of the Gulf of California to the east of Baja and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
Beta Diversidad, SeaLegacy, and other environmental advocates plan to present their proposal in a formal request to Humberto Adán Peña Fuentes, Mexico’s Commissioner of Natural Protected Areas. It would be up to Fuentes to approve the request and then pass it on to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has the power to designate or deny the marine reserves.
Artisanal fishermen from the island of El Pardito with horse mackerel. Recently, the community of El Pardito joined forces with authorities from the Commission for Fisheries and Agriculture , the National Commission for Protected Areas , and local NGO Niparajá to create a fish refuge where no fishing is allowed, enabling species to replenish.A whale shark in the harbor off La Paz, Mexico. Whale sharks use the shallow waters off La Paz as a feeding ground.
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