East Cape of Baja Sur, detail of Punta Arena & Cabo Pulmo Marine Park/UNESCO World Heritage Site One of the rarest and environmentally sensitive land and sea ecosystems in the western Pacific is under threat of mega-development. Punta Arena (Sand Point), on the edge of Cabo Pulmo Marine Park - a UNESCO World Heritage site protecting the only hard finger coral reef on the North American Continent and just 60 miles north of the resort corridor of Cabo San Lucas on the East Cape of Baja Sur, Mexico - has successfully fought two previous mega-resorts, most notoriously Cabo Cortes, named for the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes who discovered the Baja Peninsula. In 2012, the Mexican Ministry of...
↧