Natural resources protection areas of Mexico

Mexico's Natural resources protection areas (or Áreas de Protección de Recursos Naturales in Spanish) are nine federally-recognized protected areas in Mexico that are administrated by the federal National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, or CONANP).[1]

They are critical natural resources that are preserved and protected, such as water sources and important forest areas.[2]

List of natural resources protection areas

The nine areas are:

References

  1. UNEP-WCMC (2021). Protected Area Profile for Mexico from the World Database of Protected Areas. Accessed 6 September 2021.
  2. "Areas de Proteccion de los Recursos Naturales". Archived from the original on November 13, 2006. Retrieved January 27, 2007.
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