Flora and fauna protection areas of Mexico explained

Mexican Flora and Fauna Protection Areas (Áreas de Protección de Flora y Fauna in Spanish) comprise 29 protected natural areas of Mexico administrated by the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, or CONANP), an agency of the federal government.

They are areas established to conform to the regulations provided by the LGEEPA and other applicable laws on places that contain habitats for which their existence depends on their preservation, transformation, and support of the species of flora and fauna.^[1]

List of Mexican Flora and Fauna Protection Areas

Baja California

• Valle de los Cirios
• Islas del Golfo de California (Islands of the Gulf of California) (also in Baja California Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa)

Baja California Sur

• Balandra
• Cabo San Lucas

Campeche

• Laguna de Términos

Chiapas

• Cascada de Agua Azul
• Chan-Kin
• Metzabok
• Nahá

Chihuahua

• Campo Verde
• Cañón de Santa Elena
• Cerro Mohinora
• Médanos de Samalayuca
• Papigochic
• Tutuaca

Coahuila

• Cuatrociénegas
• Maderas del Carmen
• Ocampo

Colima

• El Jabalí

Jalisco

• La Primavera
• Sierra de Quila

Estado de México

• Ciénegas del Lerma
• Nevado de Toluca

Michoacán

• Pico de Tancítaro

Morelos

• Corredor Biológico Chichinautzin (also in Distrito Federal)

Oaxaca

• Boquerón de Tonalá

Quintana Roo

• Bala'an Ka'ax
• Cozumel
• Manglares de Nichupté
• Uaymil
• Yum Balam

San Luis Potosí

• Sierra La Mojonera
• Sierra de Álvarez

Sinaloa

• Meseta de Cacaxtla

Sonora

• Sierra de Álamos-Río Cuchujaqui
• Bavispe

Tabasco

• Cañón del Usumacinta

Tamaulipas

• Laguna Madre and Río Bravo Delta
• Sierra de Tamaulipas

Veracruz

• Sistema Arrecifal Lobos-Tuxpan

Yucatán

• Otoch Ma´Ax Yetel Kooh (also in Quintana Roo)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Areas de Proteccion de Flora y Fauna . Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas . 21 October 2023 . 27 February 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090227181731/http://www.conanp.gob.mx/anp/apff.php . bot: unknown .