Fishers Running Their Own Marine Reserves
A Mexican NGO trains small-scale fishers to run their own no-take marine reserves and collect the science that keeps fisheries sustainable.
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A Mexican NGO trains small-scale fishers to run their own no-take marine reserves and collect the science that keeps fisheries sustainable.
A Baja California NGO clears rats, cats and goats off Mexico's islands, and formerly extinct seabird colonies are returning by the thousands.
Tens of thousands of Nahua and Totonac families in Mexico's Sierra Norte de Puebla run their own cooperative economy, organic coffee, community finance, housing and forests, outside the reach of intermediaries.
Installs rainwater harvesting systems that bring reliable water to Mexican homes and schools cut off from municipal supply.
Since 1998, this cyclist collective has been trading car exhaust for pedal power on the streets of Mexico City.