Mexico Tourism Weblog / Category / Ecotourism in MexicoExploring MexicoPosteado el Abril 10, 2008 - Categorizado en Ecotourism in Mexico, Mexico Attractions and Leisure Activities, Mexico Tourism
In Chihuahua, Las Barrancas del Cobre provide travellers with a stunning spectacle. Through mountains and gorges, it is possible to admire the beauty of the Sierra Madre Occidental (see hotels in Chihuahua). Mexico pushes its ecotourism credentialsPosteado el Enero 31, 2008 - Categorizado en Ecotourism in Mexico Mexico can offer more than just the traditional sun and sand beach holiday, with eco-tourism in the county on the rise. The country sees eco-developments as a way to encourage tourism at the same time as protecting the environment and creating jobs in poorer, rural areas, reports the San Jose Mercury. Speaking to the paper Eduardo Chailldo of Mexico’s tourism board said: “We want to change the perception of Mexico that it is just sun and beach.” Mexico offers a variety of attractions including jungle tours, trips to areas of geological interest - Cenotes - and visits to the ancient ruins dotted across the country. The country shares borders with the USA to the north and Guatemala in the south. It has a varied climate, with a hot and humid coastline but a drier, more temperate central area.Source:holidaylettings.co.uk Mexico promotes sea turtle tourismPosteado el Enero 28, 2008 - Categorizado en Ecotourism in Mexico, Mexico Tourism A new conservation tourism programme based on promoting the welfare of Sea Turtles has been announced by Ocean Conservancy. Sea Turtle Ecological Expeditions will alert holidaymakers as to the location of conservation areas for sea turtles which will hopefully result in support for sea turtle protection. The programme, SEE Turtles, will also give tourists turtle-watching guidelines to help reduce the negative impact tourism could have on turtles. Mexican mountains offer spectacular hikes to see monarch butterfliesPosteado el Diciembre 18, 2007 - Categorizado en Ecotourism in Mexico If you’d rather see butterflies on a mountaintop than slather yourself with sunblock on a tourist-packed beach in Cancun, Mexico is an ideal winter destination.Ecotourism is drawing fans in the central states of Michoacan and Mexico, thanks to the spectacular yearly migration of millions of orange-and-black-winged monarch butterflies. In delicate swarms, the butterflies head south from the U.S. and Canada to Mexico, where they drip from pine trees and coat mountainsides from November to late March. They gather in such astonishing numbers that cars passing the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve sometimes have to slow to speeds of a couple of miles per hour to avoid splattering the delicate creatures on the windshield as they fly across the road. “I have on many occasions seen Spaniards, Italians, Americans, Canadians, Mexicans come into the butterfly colonies and literally weep,” said Lincoln Brower, a monarch expert at the University of Florida and Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Va. “It’s such an overwhelming emotional experience to realize that you’re actually looking at these tens of millions of monarch butterflies that have come into this tiny, little area of Mexico.” The Biosphere Reserve, a federally protected area nominated for World Heritage Site status, spans some 124,000 acres across two states and costs less than $5 to enter and $10 more for a guided tour. In some parts, visitors can trek about on rented horses and burros.Source:post-gazette.com Mexico invests US$4.6 million to boost tourism in bid to protect monarch butterfliesPosteado el Noviembre 27, 2007 - Categorizado en Ecotourism in Mexico Mexico announced a plan Sunday to pump pesos into a monarch butterfly reserve to boost tourism and create jobs in an impoverished area where illegal logging threatens the monarch’s habitat. The 50 million peso (US$4.6 million, €3.1 million) plan will buy equipment and advertising for the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a 124,000-acre (50,180-hectare) wooded park in Mexico’s Michoacan state, where clouds of orange- and black-winged butterflies nest each winter after flying south from Canada and the U.S. “It is possible to take care of the environment and at the same time promote development,” President Felipe Calderon said Sunday in a ceremony to celebrate the monarchs’ arrival. Calderon’s administration has boosted efforts to protect the environment, promoting plans to combat global warming and plant 250 million trees across the country this year. But in a developing country plagued by pollution and spotty regulation, progress is slow. Monarch butterflies have become an ecological symbol most Mexicans can rally around — they adorn license plates in Michoacan, Calderon’s native state. Police even stand guard along some highways there, slowing cars that might hit the butterflies as they fly in swarms across the road.Source:iht.com |
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