Ecotourism in Northern America

Stand-out in conservation and ecotourism in Mexico
MEXICO, 2014/02/11 While trendy Sayulita and ever-popular Puerta Vallarta are in the limelight for tourists, there is a sleepy but hip little town in Mexico that is leading the Mexican Riviera in sustainability efforts. San Pancho (San Francisco) Nayarit Mexico is forging the way forward in ecotourism and is located just around the point from Punta Mita one bay away from Sayulita and in the lee of the Sierra de Valajo. In 1992, the Grupo Ecologico de la Costa Verde, A.C. created the initial marine turtle nursery for Olive Ridley and Leatherback turtles on the coast to combat the pressure on the local marine turtle people from human impacts on their nesting habitat. Poaching, tourism, and development had reduced the people to two hundred nesting turtles on the beaches yearly, sparking concerns of potential extinction.

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