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There are currently 232 Protected Natural Areas in Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
, covering 98 million hectares in total. They are protected and administered by the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (''Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas'', or 'CONANP'), a federal agency under the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT). CONANP administers:
* 79 Mexican National Parks
* 48 biosphere reserves
* 57 flora and fauna protection areas
* 28 Mexican Nature Sanctuaries
* 15 natural resources protection areas
* 5 natural monuments
History
In 1988, theCongress of the Union
The Congress of the Union (, ), formally known as the General Congress of the United Mexican States (''Congreso General de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos''), is the legislature of the federal government of Mexico. It consists of two chambers: t ...
passed LGEEPA, which provides the government's modern framework for environmental protection law. However, the law only outlined some of the protection categories, with SEMARNAT creating separate ones in cases like the Tutuaca Flora and Fauna Protection Area, which formed in 2001 as a merger between the Tutuaca National Forest Reserve and Wildlife Refuge Zone.
CONANP presidents
*2001–2010: Ernesto Enkerlin *7 October 2024–:See also
*Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad
The (CONABIO; ) is a permanent inter-ministerial commission of the Mexican government, Federal Mexican government, created in 1992. It has the primary purpose of coordinating, supporting and executing activities and projects designed to foment u ...
References
External links
CONANP web site (Spanish)
Geography of Mexico Natural history of Mexico {{Mexico-geo-stub