CAPACITY BUILDING
CAUSE.
Production policies promoted in Marqués de Comillas since its foundation accompanied by subsidies geared towards agricultural activities, have resulted in accelerated deforestation and only a third of the original surface area remains in a good state of conservation. The loss of these ecosystems also causes reduced benefits generated by ecosystem services and, therefore, a decrease in living conditions and opportunities for young people and children.
OBJECTIVE AND ACTION.
Our objective is to promote new capacities, individual or collective, to generate conditions that expand the opportunities of the inhabitants of the ejidos of Marqués de Comillas for the construction of the sustainability of their development, improving living conditions and guaranteeing the conservation and sustainable and diversified use of natural resources and their environmental services.
Natura y Ecosistemas Mexicanos has promoted sustainable productive alternatives that achieve the dual purpose of improving the quality of life of the families involved and avoiding changes in land use.
ACHIEVEMENTS .
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More than 655 ejidatarios and family members have been trained to implement sustainable production and wildlife monitoring projects;
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The general population of the municipality has been made aware of this issue through environmental fairs, community cinema, tours of the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, brochures and posters;
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Capacity building team has been involved in environmental education actions with more than 2,900 children with interventions repeated throughout the year and for several years, to achieve a change in attitude;
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5 young people from local communities who wish to join their family members' social enterprises have been supported with vocational training through a full scholarship for their university studies;
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The training of more than 400 biologists and professionals has been consolidated through their professional practices with a vision for conservation and sustainable development through direct work with rural communities;
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The national vision of the importance of the Lacandona Rainforest has been influenced through television campaigns around the program “Que Viva la Selva Lacandona.”
Sensitization
The conservation of our country's biodiversity is a call to the survival of natural memory and our biological heritage; it is also a call to protect the quality and future of our own life as human beings, as an inseparable part of the complex natural world. However, it is often ignored or disregarded, which has accelerated the loss or deterioration of our natural capital and the serious marginalization of important sectors of our society. That is why environmental awareness plays such an important role, as our first line of action to ensure this natural heritage, since it aims to develop attitudes, feelings, social values and motivation to participate in the protection and conservation of the environment.