Regenerative Tourism and Protected Marine Life - Baja California Sur

Environmental Sustainability

The initiative, “Regenerative Tourism and Protected Marine Life,” has been active from 2022 to 2025 in Baja California Sur, reaching the municipalities of La Paz, Comondú, Mulegé, and Loreto, with a social, environmental, and governance-focused approach.

This initiative is a model that integrates ecological restoration, tourism innovation, and scientific cooperation as pathways to regenerate marine ecosystems and strengthen environmental resilience in coastal destinations, through tourism experiences that raise awareness among visitors and communities.

In this way, tourism contributes to environmental education, as well as the restoration and protection of the state’s marine and coastal ecosystems. It also fosters community participation through the creation of partnerships with various civil society organizations, promoting the training of tourism cooperatives and local service providers to carry out mangrove restoration, beach cleanups, participatory wildlife monitoring, and visitor management in protected natural areas.

Main impacts and results of this initiative:

• Restoration of more than 50 hectares of mangroves and coastal ecosystems.

• 12 tourism cooperatives certified under regenerative criteria.

• Training of more than 200 service providers in sustainable practices.

• Active monitoring of whales, turtles, and seabirds in 4 protected natural areas.

• Estimated 18% reduction in ecological impacts from nautical activities.