Tag: Mexico marine protected area

• Monday, November 27th 2017 - 09:09 UTC

  Mexico creates the largest marine protected area in North America

  

  Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, signed a decree creating a massive marine reserve, spanning 57,000 square miles around the four Revillagigedo Islands—a volcanic archipelago 240 miles southwest of the Baja Peninsula. The reserve is the largest marine protected area yet created in North America.