This solution emphasizes the importance of the human dimension to achieve long-term success in nature conservation. Its objective is achieved through promotion, dialogue of knowledge, community participation, and self-management. It also functions as a bridge to reach agreements between the conservation vision and the social vision to show that both are compatible. A fundamental part of the implementation of the strategy is education, the creation of relevant and valuable content, and the application of methodological tools that allow us to know and understand the opinions and perceptions of the communities that interact with natural areas.
It is essential to implement creative tools that allow us to innovate the message and translate fieldwork and legal terms into symbols, identity, and cultural appropriation. Nature reserves are the ideal classroom for students and academics. The Adaptive Habitat Management and Awareness and Social Participation strategies work hand in hand to provide educational and outreach experiences. Through walks in the nature reserves, we show the conservation actions carried out in the different projects of the organization and the environmental value and biodiversity.
Environmental Ethics: Since 2018, we are community members of the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics that protects the outdoors by teaching and inspiring people to enjoy it responsibly through the learning of the 7 Leave No Trace Principles. In two years, we have graduated two generations of Leave No Trace Trainers at the Punta Mazo Nature Reserve in partnership with the National Outdoor Leadership School.
We are committed to supporting and promoting Leave No Trace's skills and ethics to keep water quality, healthy natural areas, thriving wildlife, and sustainable trails in our protected areas.
Coastal cleanup - We have been a member of the Waterkeeper alliance since 2016, and through the Waterkeeper Bahía San Quintín program, we seek to protect water quality in the bay. We also participate in the International Coastal Cleanup. Every year in September, we commit to clean beaches in collaboration with civil society organizations, businesses, government agencies, educational centers, and the community in general.
Awareness on Climate change adaptation and mitigation approach
SALM practices on Demonstration plot
Smart farmers and Transformation
During cultivation farmers will be involving in tree planting to recover the deforested areas. This will be done parallel to practicing Sustainable Agricultural Land Management that involves recovering of soil and other maintainance practises done on the land surface during cultivation.
Presence of area for replanting
Availability of tree seedlings
willingness of the nursery producers
Availability of fund for daily secondary nursery management
Availability of human resource
In the area we already implemented the project, this become success due to the awareness created and enhanced capacity of farmers on climate change adaptation and mitigation.
For only this two years of implementing this project about 400000 trees were planted by smallholder farmers and 15000 hactors were cultivated under sustainable agriculture.
This approach seeks to keep protected natural areas healthy, achieved through biological monitoring activities and implementing surveillance programs, attention to visitors in natural reserves, maintenance of infrastructure, and restoration actions. Adaptive management is built step by step, considering sustainable development and the uses of local communities and scientific knowledge. That is why management actions are closely coordinated with the national and international academic sector, seeking to ensure that the establishment of protected areas responds to global conservation needs. What happens in the protected areas is the basis for long-term conservation actions.
Since 2018 we have been working on the restoration of the dunes of the Punta Mazo Nature Reserve. The restoration sites have been a success: the vegetation reclaimed its space, and today these trails are almost entirely covered with native vegetation. In 2017 we created the conservation program, which aims to implement long-term biological monitoring in the rocky intertidal and wetlands of the San Quintín lagoon complex. Both ecosystems are vulnerable to the impacts caused by human activity, so it is essential to generate tools to help conserve them.
The Public Use Program seeks to identify the opportunities and concerns of each of the stakeholders through participatory workshops with the various actors in the area and a literature search on all scientific work done in the region. This will make it possible to establish a range of opportunities or experiences that will make it possible to regulate the activities carried out in the area. The goal is to find management strategies that maximize the diverse interests of users and the interests of habitat conservation, thus mitigating the human impact, climate change and improving the site's resilience.
