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There are currently 182 Protected Natural Areas in Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
, covering 25.4 million hectares in total. They are protected and administrated by the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, c ...
(''Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas'', or 'CONANP'), a federal agency. CONANP administers:
* 67 Mexican National Parks
Mexico recognizes 67 federally protected natural areas as national parks ( es, Parques Nacionales), which are administered by the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (CONANP), a branch of the federal Secretariat of the Environment and ...
* 44 biosphere reserves
Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific program, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.
MAB's work engag ...
* 40 flora and fauna protection areas
* 18 Mexican Nature Sanctuaries
Mexico's Protected Nature Sanctuaries (or ''Santuarios'' in Spanish) are 17 federally recognized protected areas in Mexico that are administrated by the federal National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (''Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturale ...
* 9 natural resources protection areas
* 11 natural monuments
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are p ...
See also
*LGEEPA The General Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection (''Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y la Protección al Ambiente'', or ''LGEEPA'' in Spanish) is an important piece of Mexican environmental protection
Environmental pro ...
- Mexico's groundbreaking 1988 environmental legislation
References
External links
CONANP web site (Spanish)
Geography of Mexico Natural history of Mexico {{Mexico-geo-stub