Comunidad para la conservación de la Isla San Pedro Mártir
San Pedro Martir is the most oceanic island on the Gulf of California. This small piece of land of only 1.7 Km2 is separated by other islands’ deep submarine canyons, the coast of Sonora and the Baja California peninsula, and is located at the core of one of the richest and most productive areas on the Gulf of California. [more...]

Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Buzos y Pescadores de Isla Natividad
It has 80 members and is one of the oldest cooperatives in the western Baja California coast. The cooperative controls extraction, processing, and marketing of all benthonic fisheries inside its authorized concession around the island. [more...]

Sociedad Cooperativa Mujeres del Golfo
This is a unique and exemplary cooperative in the whole region. It was established by 10 women resident from the Ligüi community inside the Bahía de Loreto National Park. The women have developed clam aquaculture projects and captured fish and invertebrate species for aquariums. [more...]

Amigos para la Conservación del Arrecife Cabo Pulmo
The non-profit organization Amigos para la Conservación del Arrecife Cabo Pulmo (Friends of Cabo Pulmo Reef Conservation) is unique perhaps due to its conservation history worldwide. Founded by a family living across the northernmost reed in the Eastern Pacific for four generations , it is a place that stands out because of its beauty and biodiversity. [more...]

Pescadores de Bahía Kino
In Bahía Kino, Sonora, a place aggravated by the "tragedy of the commons", we worked with a group of residents and fishers who want to stop this misfortune. The term "tragedy of the commons" was coined at the end of the 1960s and has helped to better understand the phenomenon driving societies to deplete their natural assets rapidly and uncontrollably. [more...]