Hermosillo, Mexico.- Mexican seas and its exclusive
economic zone (200 miles from the coastline), became
a giant sanctuary and refuge for whales since past 24th
of May, acording to announcement published in the Mexican
Official Gazzete, thanks to the efforts of WWF Mexico
by lobbying, and Greenpeace with the proposal.
The mexican whales will have guaranteed its reproduction
circle, borning, growing, learning, feeding and migrating,
important phases for this cetaceans, also their habitat
won´t be exposed to human explotation.
In the Mexican Official Gazzete, Victor Lichtinger,
Enviromental and Natural Resources Ministry informs
that due to the nature of this agreement his office
will be in charge of administrating the refuge areas
as well as the regional protection programs.
“Those programs”, declared Lichtinger, “must
contain the physical, biological, social and cultural
characteristics of the refuge area; objectives of the
area; management and conservation measures; and delimitation
of the priority zones towards the conservation of the
species”.
Some considerations for decreed where: flora and fauna
are part of the nation’s public wealth; Mexico
counts with al least 31 species of cetaceous out of
the 81 known in the world.
Also Mexico has actively contributed to the international
efforts made by many other countries protecting whales;
and at least, some species are in danger because hunting.
This agreement is the answer of the Mexican Government
to the proposal “Investigation Program of Marine
Mammals”, conformed in 1989 by the Instituto Nacional
de la Pesca (National Fishery Institute), Sociedad Mexicana
de Mamíferos Marinos (Mexican Society of Marine
Mammals), Universidad de Baja California Sur (University
of Baja California South), Centro de Investigaciones
Biológicas de Baja California Sur (Center for
Biological Research of Baja California South), ITESM
Guaymas, Centro de Investigaciones de Quintana Roo,
(Research Center of Quintana Roo), and Facultad de Ciencias
de la UNAM, (Sciences School of UNAM).
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