Salsipuedes: Challenges for Ecotourism in Mexico’s Baja California

In the construction of a framework for forging a socially acceptable and politically viable style of growth that respects natural resources and guarantees their rational use and their preservation for future generations, innumerable forces converge. Sometimes these forces are at odds with each other. They come from the federal, state, and municipal governments, from national and foreign investors, from academia, and from civil society organizations.

In this context, the Baja California peninsula is a true laboratory providing multiple examples of the mosaic of challenges and the richness of the cutting edge proposals to resolve them. In the central part of this exceptional region, the Reserva de la Biosfera del Vizcaíno (Rebivi) constitutes a true microcosm, unique in the world, like other areas in the Mar de Cortés region of which it forms part.”*

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