The Financing Protected Areas (FINANP, acronym in Spanish) project will support the operation of three marine Protected Areas (PAs) managed by the National Commission of Protected Areas. In 2021, thanks to conservation, surveillance, and pest and fire detection activities carried out by agricultural communities, project partners identified 2,594 hectares in the process of being restored. In addition, the updating of legal instruments and adjustments to the environmental services payment mechanism made sure that the disbursements to the 33 agricultural communities, through the National Forestry Commission’s Mexican Forestry Found were timely anThis initiative seeks that PAs have effective management, greater biological connectivity, and sustainable financing. FMCN is responsible for the financial management of the project’s endowment contributions, which will make it possible to generate yields and design a detailed work plan in 2022. FINANP will formally launch field activities in 2023.
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