Protected natural areas in Mexico: Preservation or dispossession of the biocultural heritage?

International Journal of Development Research

Protected natural areas in Mexico: Preservation or dispossession of the biocultural heritage?

Abstract: 

Protected Natural Areas (PNA) have represented internationally from more than 100 years ago, a strategy to preserve geographic spaces with an important biological richness, however these reservoirs have not incorporated in its design to the human element, such as an integral part in preservation activities, have dismissed the local knowledge systems, to implement a planning given by the global system.

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