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The following is a list of ecoregions in Mexico as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). A different system of ecoregional analysis is used by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation , a trilateral body linking Mexican, Canadian and United States environmental regime.
There are currently 232 Protected Natural Areas in Mexico, covering 98 million hectares in total. They are protected and administered by the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, or 'CONANP'), a federal agency under the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT). [1]
In 2002, Mexico had the second fastest rate of deforestation in the world, second only to Brazil. [5] It had a 2019 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 6.82/10, ranking it 63rd globally out of 172 countries. [6] In Mexico, 170,000 square kilometers (65,637 sq mi) are considered "protected natural areas".
Forest in the Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca.. The forests of Mexico cover a surface area of about 64 million hectares, or 34.5% of the country. [1] These forests are categorized by the type of tree and biome: tropical forests, temperate forests, cloud forests, riparian forests, deciduous, evergreen, dry, moist, etc..
Distrito Federal (Ciudad de México) Los Marmoles National Park: 1936: 231: Hidalgo: composed of Barranca de San Vicente y Cerro de Cangando Los Novillos National Park: 1940: 0.4: Coahuila: Los Remedios National Park: 1938: 4: Estado de México: Molino de Flores Nezahualcóyotl National Park: 1937: 0.5: Estado de México: Nevado de Toluca ...
According to the National Biodiversity Information System of Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) in Papigochic Flora and Fauna Protection Area there are over 665 plant and animal species from which 40 are in at risk category and 14 are exotics.
A Mexican State (Spanish: Estados), officially the Free and Sovereign State (Spanish: Estado libre y soberano), is a constituent federative entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico. Currently there are 31 states, each with its own constitution, government , state governor , and state congress .
The Cumbres de Monterrey (Spanish: Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey, ['kumbɾes ðe monte'rej] ⓘ; English: "Summits of Monterrey") is a national park of Mexico located in the northern portion of the Sierra Madre Oriental in the states of Nuevo León and Coahuila, near the city of Monterrey.