Unity is strength and that is what they are doing. Pronatura Noroestethe National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas) (Conanp), Secretary of the Navy y Global Conservation for the conservation of the Islas Marías Biosphere Reserve.

In June, these civil society organizations and government institutions established alliances to protect the ecosystems present in this region. Natural Protected Area (ANP) which is located 120 kilometers away from San BlasNayarit, Nayarit, and 170 kilometers from Mazatlan, Sinaloa.

Pronatura Noroeste emphasized that as part of their visit to the Reserve, they signed a work program to strengthen the supervision, inspection and surveillance actions that the organization and its partners carry out for this ANP.

"The objective is to strengthen the detection and attention to fishing irregularities in the area, whose extension exceeds 640,000 hectares. For this purpose, various technological tools will be used, such as the Marine Monitor (also called M2) and Marine Monitor Movil (M3) systems, which already operate in other protected sites in the region, such as Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur," he says.

During their June visit to this reserve, the following were present Alejandro GonzalezThe project is being supported by Global Conservation in Mexico, director of Global Conservation in Mexico, a partner in this important conservation project.

Pronatura Noroeste emphasizes that this organization, like them, has experience in the use of technologies in the service of conservation, in different sites around the world.

During the tours, personnel from the Secretary of the Navy participated, which allowed us to have and share relevant information and define agreements aimed at strengthening compliance with environmental and fishing legislation for the benefit of wildlife and habitats present in the Islas Marías.

The ecological relevance of the Islas Marías is largely due to the geographic isolation they have maintained for eight million years. This makes it a refuge for endemic species, such as the yellow-headed parrot (Amazona oratrix), the Islas Marías raccoon (Procyon lotor insularis) and the Islas Marías rabbit (Sylvilagus graysoni). It is also a nesting site for marine birds and a resting place for different migratory birds from North America.

In 2000, the federal government declared the Islas Marías as a Natural Protected Area (NPA) with the status of Biosphere Reserve and in 2019 announced the closure of the prison that operated in this place since the 20th century, which allowed structuring in an integral way the environmental protection plans for the four islands that make up the archipelago: San Juanico Island, María Magdalena Island, María Cleofas Island and the largest of them, María Madre Island, where the penitentiary operated.

Source: Pronatura Noroeste