With support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) through the Small Grants Program (SGP), EcoGuerreros (Ecowarriors) and its Camino del Mayab (Path of the Mayab) initiative develop a conservation project of natural areas in Yucatan countryside.
“The countryside in Mexico has large areas of land. So the idea is to create these conservation mechanisms with them. Let’s say that the proposal we have as a company comes from the idea of conserving, but that economic activities can be developed in those areas,” commented Andrés Gutiérrez Cervera, Co-Founder of EcoGuerreros.
The idea of Camino del Mayab, together with the support of the PPD, is to encourage eco-tourism in these areas to reactivate the economy with low environmental impact practices.
“Currently in conservation, there is this idea of looking and protecting but not touching. We want it to be touchable but as an incentive for conservation. Because it is a proposal to value the products and services that the community itself can offer,” said Andrés Gutiérrez.
“So, through small donations, we are developing these training activities for people. We teach them about this topic of natural areas and what are the benefits and benefits that the ejido as such can have.”
Camino del Mayab covers an important belt of haciendas and cenotes, where the communities of Sacalá, Tebá, Yaxcopoil, Cacao, San Antonio Mulix, and Abalá, among others, are located. It is in these areas that education work is being carried out with people in the countryside communities”.
“These communities can be visited by people along a path, so people walk or bike and get to know the attractions of all the natural and cultural wealth that exists in the region. The idea is to make a biocultural corridor that is protected, with the help of colleagues from the communities with which we collaborate. Through these large forest masses, we seek to generate an income that can be sustainable.”
These low-impact economic activities are intended to be a conservation mechanism, like beekeeping, which depends on the care of the flowering in these areas for it to work. The project of the social enterprise EcoGuerreros, Camino del Mayab, is expanding and developing new workshops. The invitation to citizens is open so that they can get to know these conservation spaces.
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