Mexico, Guatemala, Belize Strengthen Yucatan Peninsula Environmental Protection Efforts

Regional authorities and communities coordinate to safeguard forests, water, and wildlife while supporting sustainable growth in Yucatan.

Mexico's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) working together Greenpeace México civil society organizations and Yucatan Peninsula community representatives to strengthen the regions coordinated environmental protection efforts. The meeting focused on safeguarding regional ecosystems and maintaining the peninsula's aquifer networks.

To prevent ecological damage, officials stated the importance of including civil society proposals into regional planning and making use of existing environmental techniques. In one of Mexico's most environmentally exposed areas, as per SEMARNAT developing maintainable growth models required working with local actors.

The meeting started with a plenary session gathering together federal authorities, environmental organizations and community leaders discussed concerns connected to land use, water protection and social impacts connected with growth demands.

While the second focused on ecological restoration and the protection of water and land defenders the first focused on safeguarding territorial management and environmental monitoring. Both recognized possibilities for institutional cooperation and offered interagency procedures to raise coordination environmental commitments.

It improves trinational conservation cooperation by protecting over 7000 species including 200 at risk species, 50 priority species and 250 Mexican natives. The agreement signed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo and Belizean President John Antonio Briceño aims to conserve 5 million hectares of forest.