{{Short description|Protected land in Mexico}} [[File:Zona arqueologica Bonampak 01 ID ZA30 DBannasch.jpg|thumb|265px|Bonampak is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Chiapas, and is a natural monument.]] 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).<ref>{{cite web |title=Áreas Naturales Protegidas |url=https://www.gob.mx/conanp/documentos/areas-naturales-protegidas-278226 |website=www.gob.mx |publisher=Government of Mexico |date=8 October 2024}}</ref> CONANP administers:
* 79 Mexican National Parks * 48 biosphere reserves * 57 flora and fauna protection areas * 28 Mexican Nature Sanctuaries * 15 natural resources protection areas * 5 natural monuments
thumb|400x400px|Federal Natural Protected Areas of Mexico, January 2024
==History== In 1988, the Congress of the Union passed LGEEPA, which provides the government's modern framework for environmental protection law. However, the law only outlined some of the protection categories, with SEMARNAT creating separate ones in cases like the Tutuaca Flora and Fauna Protection Area, which formed in 2001 as a merger between the Tutuaca National Forest Reserve and Wildlife Refuge Zone.<ref>{{cite news |title=Recategoriza la Semarnat zonas de reserva nacional |work=Mural |date=28 December 2001 |location=Guadalajara |page=9 |issn=1563-7743 |id={{ProQuest|374019601}}}}</ref>
==CONANP presidents== {{Incomplete list|date=December 2024}} *2001–2010: Ernesto Enkerlin *7 October 2024–: {{ill|Pedro Álvarez Icaza Longoria|es}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Pedro Álvarez Icaza toma posesión de la CONANP |url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024/10/07/politica/pedro-alvarez-icaza-toma-posesion-este-lunes-de-la-conanp-7803 |work=La Jornada |date=7 October 2024 |language=es-mx}}</ref>
==See also== *Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070127011325/http://www.conanp.gob.mx/anp/anp.php CONANP web site (Spanish)] *[http://sig.conanp.gob.mx/website/pagsig/datos_anp.htm ÁREAS NATURALES PROTEGIDAS DECRETADAS (Spanish) ]
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