Jorge Ricardo and Guadalupe Irizar
Reform Agency
Thursday, February 16, 2023 | 09:37
Mexico City.– The federal government decreed more than 16 thousand hectares of the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) as protected natural areas.
“In compliance with your instructions and the agreement published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, I allow myself to report that of the territorial reserves that are by identified author, 16,414 hectares with high environmental value that can be converted into protected natural areas,” reported Javier May, head of Fonatur.
May pointed out that in Baja California there are 66.80 hectares; in Baja California Sur, 8 thousand 64.69; in Guerrero, 981.71; in Oaxaca, 5 thousand 263.18; in Quintana Roo, 115.79; and in Sinaloa, 1,921.87.
The purpose, explained President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on February 7, is to prevent them from becoming a temptation later on and passing into the hands of politicians and people who intend to profit from the nation’s assets.
According to the federal president, decreeing these assets as protected natural areas is to preserve the nation’s assets, guarantee public beaches in some cases and avoid auctions or sales as occurred after Fobaproa.
This morning, May said that the Government of the 4T does not want more tourist developments at the expense of the people.
“Mexico’s beaches belong to all and all Mexicans and public goods must strengthen the environment and above all return the human sense to tourism,” he said.
“That is why we are now eradicating predatory tourism to move towards responsible tourism with the environment and a social dimension.”
