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Mexico's Natural resources protection areas (or Áreas de Protección de Recursos Naturales in Spanish) are nine federally-recognized protected areas in Mexico that are administrated by the federal National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, or CONANP). [1]
In 1949, the organization changed its name to the National Research Institute for Mineral Resources, and in 1955 it became the Non-Renewable Natural Resources Council. Twenty years later, in 1975, the agency became known as the Mexican Resources Council. In 2005, the title was modified to its present listing as the Mexican Geological Survey. [2]
The mining sector employed 350,000 people in 2020, and generated US$1.5 billion in direct government tax revenue, and an additional US$1.84 billion of government revenue from exports of mined natural resources. [1] Mexico is the world's largest producer of silver [2] and a globally significant producer of gold, copper and zinc. [1]
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 ]
This list of mines in Mexico is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
Mexico recognizes 67 federally protected natural areas as national parks (Spanish: Parques Nacionales), which are administered by the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (CONANP), a branch of the federal Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources.
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.
This area is the most rugged in the state where most of the natural areas and small villages are remain intact due to their inaccessibility. [32] Culturally, the Sierra Gorda region is the far western part of La Huasteca , which extends over parts of the states of Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo and Veracruz .