Biodiversity Project Seeks to Tackle Mexico Poverty without Damaging Natural Resources Angelica Enciso L. - La Jornada
go to original January 13, 2014

A policy of ‘biological corridors’, which can be integrated with the National Crusade Against Hunger, will be established in Mexico. Already 300 of the municipalities included in the Crusade are areas of high biodiversity, according to Pedro Álvarez Icaza, director of the Mesoamerican Mexican Biological Corridor (CBMM).

He explained how the proposal was made to federal government and how the link between poverty and biodiversity was found.

 “We have to see how to improve people’s living conditions without further damaging our natural resources. A new project has been prepared to promote this policy on a national level.”

... The CBMM obtained financing from the World Fund for Nature. It is part of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor in which Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Mexico participate. Its objective is to look after biological diversity, diminish the fragmenting of habitats and improve the connectivity of the countryside and its ecosystems as a way of improving the quality of life of the local population who use, manage and conserve biodiversity.

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Translated by Roxy Thompson

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