Baja California Sur has been selected to participate in the national project "Integration of biodiversity conservation criteria in the tourism sector in Mexico, with an emphasis on the richness of biodiversity in coastal ecosystems", through which it seeks to promote and consolidate the sustainable development of the industry in the country, informed the Secretary of Tourism, Economy and Sustainability (SETUES), Luis Humberto Araiza López.

Accompanied by the executive president of Conservation of the Mexican Insular Territory AC, better known as Grupo Isla, María Helena Martínez Delgado, the official thanked the determined work of the members of this association, who for almost six years worked so that the entity was considered in This program whose main purpose is to strengthen tourism as an engine of development and economic growth, capable of protecting biodiversity and generating well-being in all sectors of society, based on four components that include: regulatory framework, financing and investment for the conservation, design of good practices of tourist activities and promotion of Mexico as a friendly destination with the environment.

Araiza López pointed out that this project, headed by the federal SECTUR, will apply a total of 7.2 million dollars from the World Environment Fund, which he commented, will be distributed between Mexico City, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo and Baja California Sur , highlighting that in the case of the State, it will have the participation of the state government and the Autonomous University (UABCS).

In BCS, the flora and fauna protection area of ​​the Gulf of California islands, the Espiritu Santo Archipelago Marine Zone National Park, the Balandra flora and fauna protection area, the Cabo Pulmo National Park, the Sierra biosphere reserve will benefit. La Laguna, the Cabo San Lucas flora and fauna protection area and the Estero de San José del Cabo state ecological reserve