Save the Mangroves
Recent news on mangroves conservation in Mexico:
December 3rd, 2008.
A PRI* Deputy proposes to modify Article 60 of the mexican Wildlife General Law in order to allow mangrove destruction to favor the creation of touristic infraestructure.
Since February 2007, mangroves in Mexico are protected by this article which states that mangrove areas cannot be modified at all except for projects that are intended to “restore, research, protect or conserve them”.
* Revolutionary Institutional Party.
January 19th, 2009.
A PRI Senator proposes to modify Article 60 of the mexican Wildlife General Law in order to allow mangrove destruction to favor the creation of touristic infraestructure.
April 14th, 2009.
Link to a very interesting article written by well-known mexican journalist Julio Hernández López (in Spanish):
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/04/14/index.php?section=opinion&article=004o1pol
April 15th, 2009.
The polemic “Ley General de Turismo” (General Law of Tourism) was approved by the mexican congress. This law is intended to promote tourism growth in Mexico in order to double the number of incoming tourists by 2020.
According to nature conservation experts, this law has left many loose ends that will affect the conditions of the mexican ecosystems; particularly mangrove areas.
To read the views of Greenpeace Mexico about it, please click at:
http://www.greenpeace.org/mexico/news/env-an-ley-de-turismo-al-senad
April 22nd, 2009.
Celebration of Earth Day (since 1970).
May 11th, 2009.
World Ocean Conference: Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Strategies and Actions. Manado, Indonesia.
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