The current overview of Protected Natural Areas (PNA) of Mexico

Abstract

The current overview of the Protected Natural Areas (PNA) of Mexico. In Mexico, ANPs were designed as a conservation strategy. However, they have been raised from an economic-environmental perspective in the last three decades, relying on the institutionalization of private property rights and freedom of trade, considering the market as the ideal way to optimize the use and exploitation of nature. In order to analyze the situation of the ANPs in the face of the change in land use derived from the modification of environmental legislation and the implementation of laws that promote economic activities and urban growth in Mexico, the annual increase and conditions were mapped territorial areas such as the use of soil and vegetation of the ANP of Mexico, as well as the modifications of urban, agricultural and conserved areas, demonstrating that the ANP support a territorial offer for the maintenance of economic activities, causing the reduction of their conserved spaces.