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Mexico ranks fourth [1] in the world in biodiversity and is one of the 17 megadiverse countries. With over 200,000 different species, Mexico is home of 10–12% of the world's biodiversity. [ 2 ] Mexico ranks first in biodiversity in reptiles with 707 known species, second in mammals with 438 species , fourth in amphibians with 290 species, and ...
The Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO; English: National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity) is a permanent inter-ministerial commission of the Federal Mexican government, created in 1992.
The National Biodiversity Pavilion (in spanish Pabellón Nacional de la Biodiversidad of the National Autonomous University of Mexico) is a Mexico's museum oriented towards showing the national biodiversity in Mexico. It was opened in 2021 at the Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City. [1]
Selva Zoque region of Southern Mexico The Selva Zoque (English: Zoque Forest ), which includes the Chimalapas rain forest , is an area of great ecological importance in Mexico . Most of the forest lies in the state of Oaxaca but parts are in Chiapas and Veracruz . [ 1 ]
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.
According to the National Biodiversity Information System of Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) in Meseta de Cacaxtla Flora and Fauna Protection Area there are over 1,215 plant and animal species from which 81 are in at risk category and 62 are exotics.
The American bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana is an invasive species in Mexico. Invasive species in Mexico are a major cause of biodiversity loss, [1] altering ecosystems, affecting native species, damaging environmental services and public health, and causing economic losses. [2]
It is one of three biosphere reserves representing the Chihuahuan Desert (along with Big Bend Biosphere Reserve and National Park in western Texas and Jornada Biosphere Reserve in New Mexico). [2] The 342,388 hectares (1,321.97 sq mi) reserve is situated between the Neotropical and Nearctic biogeographic realms , in the Bolsón de Mapimí 1,150 ...