Public-Private-NGO Conservation Alliance Invests $100 Million in Mexico
QUINTANA ROO, Mexico, June 4, 2009, Environment News Service – To establish Mexico as a global model for conservation, a new alliance today announced an initial investment of US$100 million for the promotion of sustainable development and protection of biodiversity in six priority regions.
The global conservation group WWF, along with the foundation established by telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim, and the Mexican federal government, launched the initiative to support conservation in areas of exceptional natural richness.
- Companies:
- Environment News Service
- WWF
- Places:
- Bay Islands
- Belize
- Canada
- Caribbean
- Central Mexican Highlands
- Chiapas
- Chihuahuan Desert
- El Triunfo
- Guatemala
- Gulf of California
- Lacandon rainforest
- Latin America
- Mexico
- North America
- Northern Honduras
- Oaxaca
- Pacific
- QUINTANA ROO
- Rio Grande River
- Sierra Madre Mountains
- Southern Chiapas
- United States
- Usumacinta River
- Yucatan Peninsula
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