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The Valle de los Cirios Pacific Coast

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The Problem

The Valle de los Cirios Pacific Coast in Baja California begins approximatetly 250 miles south of San Diego and stretches 88 miles to the village of Santa Rosalillita. It is one of the few remaining wild shorelines on the North American Pacific Coast. The region is far removed from the urbanized world of Southern California, allowing for a plethora of wildlife to thrive unhindered by human presence. It is home to undisturbed sweeping points and bays, sandy beaches, wetlands, rocky reefs and headlands that support biodiversity, habitat and floral endemism found nowhere else on earth. Unfortunately, the same development interests that have destroyed the ecological fabric of Baja Norte and Los Cabos are pressuring to permanently alter the Cirios coast.

The Solution

In 2006, WiLDCOAST began protecting  the Valle de los Cirios Pacific Coast through a combination of conservation easement agreements, direct land purchases and a partnership with Mexico’s Commission for Protected Natural Areas (CONANP) to protect the region's Federal Maritime Terrestrial Zone (ZOFEMAT). WiLDCOAST has made tremendous success in recent years to protect the most biologically significant areas on the Cirios coast while maintaining unrestricted public coastal access.

Successes

In 2006, WiLDCOAST began protecting the undisturbed coastal landscape of the Valle de los Cirios Pacific Coast focusing on the immediate conservation of the region’s points, bay shorelines, and wetlands. To date, WiLDCOAST has protected a total of 23,000 acres and 24 miles of coastline, including seven of the region's largest points and adjacent bay shoreline, and three prominent wetlands.

Management activities in WiLDCOAST’s protected areas include the instillation of signage that promotes sustainable land use within the region’s fisher and visitor communities, site surveys and trash cleanups.  Our successes have ushered in new negotiations for properties historically off the conservation agenda due to speculation interests in the region.  WiLDCOAST is taking advantage of these new opportunities and moving forward to conserve the globally unique Cirios coast.

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Zachary Plopper
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