The Nature Conservancy - Places We Work

Support The Nature Conservancy’s work in Mexico

With your help we can preserve Mexico's amazing forests, deserts, grasslands and oceans.

Conservation Science

Learn how the Conservancy uses cutting edge science to protect crucially important landscapes across Mexico.

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The Nature Conservancy has been working in Mexico since 1998. Through our work there we have built strong partnerships with the Mexican and local governments as well as several local partners.

We achieve conservation success in Mexico by using cutting edge science, working with communities, creating management plans for protected areas, controlling the spread of invasive species and helping manage uncontrolled fire.

Some of the key places we protect across Mexico are:

Baja and the Gulf of California - Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula boasts some of the most unique terrestrial and marine environments in the world and is home to one-third of Earth’s marine mammals.

Chihuahuan Desert – The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest desert in North America and is located between two of Mexico’s largest mountain ranges called the eastern and western Sierra Madres. The Conservancy is working to across the entire desert and is concentrating activities in the Cuatro Cienegas Valley and the Janos Valley grasslands.

Gulf of Mexico – The Gulf of Mexico connects six Mexican states and five U.S. states with the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It is also home to the world’s longest barrier island system. In Mexico the Conservancy is focusing efforts on the Laguna Madre.

Maya Forest – It is the largest remaining tropical rainforest outside of the Amazon and stretches across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, northern Guatemala and Belize. In Mexico the Conservancy is focused in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve and a biological corridor between Calakmul and Sian Ka’an.

Mesoamerican Reef – The Mesoamerican Reef is the longest barrier in the Western Hemisphere and is second in the world to only Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. In Mexico the Conservancy is focusing on the Yucatan Coastal Wetlands and has also purchased and manages Pez Maya in the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve.

Sonoran Desert - The 55-million-acre Sonoran desert stretches across Mexico and the United States, including the Mexican states of Sonora and Northern Baja California and parts of the U.S. states of southern Arizona, southeastern California and parts of New Mexico.

Chiapas - The southernmost Mexican state of Chiapas is composed of cloud forests and serves as a last refuge for dozens of endemic, rare and endangered plants and animals.