Weekly Report - 08 December 2016 (WR-16-48)

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto made an emphatic statement of intent in an eye-catching opening address to the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP 13) on 5 December. Peña Nieto declared that Mexico, which is hosting the COP 13 at the tourist resort of Cancún, would create four new biological reserves and five other protected areas, setting aside 65m hectares for conservation, and undertaking to safeguard species in danger of extinction. Mexico has now conferred protected status on a total of 91m hectares, 23% of the country’s maritime area and 14% of its land mass, exceeding the requirements of the 2020 Aichi biodiversity targets.

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