Continuing with our Mexico Posible series, we bring you another successful example of sustainable natural resource management.
Located on the Sonora coast, the Seri are one of the smallest indigenous minorities in Mexico, and only about 600 remain. However, we have a lot to learn from them. While other fisheries have collapsed, the capture levels in their fishery have remained constant for over three decades…
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In conjunction with The EcoTipping Points Project (www.ecotippingpoints.org), Mexiconservación has begun a new project in which we will share environmental sustainability success stories from Mexico, and the lessons learned from them. This project is called México Posible.
Our first success story covers how indigenous communities in the jungles of Quintana Roo have made the transition from unsustainable slash-and-burn agriculture to a model of agroforestry that incorporates fruit trees and wood-tree plantations, reversing deforestation trends and becoming a model of sustainable for the world: Sustainable Agroforestry in the Mayan Zone of Quintana Roo