ON BACALAR'S DEFENSE. COLLOQUIAL VERSION

activities established and regulated by the instruments include natural corridor and alternative tourism, hunting and fishing, with a list of incompatible uses clearly specified.

In turn, these instruments incorporate general and specific criteria that involve criteria for cenotes and sinkholes, native aquatic vegetation, waste, wastewater, aquifer use and prevention of aquifer contamination, rainwater harvesting, roads, material banks, species in special category, nurseries, firewood, urban centers, organic fertilizers, recreational activities, archaeological sites, agrochemicals, wetlands and bodies of water, building materials, fisheries, infrastructure, alternative tourism, marine, mangroves, fauna, liquid waste management and flora.

For its part, the same body of water is placed as environmental management unit 152 in the Marine and Regional Ecological Management of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, which also refers to general and specific ecological criteria, and a well-delineated list of guidelines associated with ecological strategies, general and specific actions, with their respective strategies, that must be complied with by any project in the body of water and its area of influence.

This instrument published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on November 24, 2012 sought to be a planning and policy tool at the regional level to guide in a coordinated manner the use of natural resources and the development of productive activities under principles of sustainability, which consider the conservation of goods and services of coastal and marine ecosystems but also the socioeconomic development of the Gulf region of Mexico and the Caribbean, including territories of coastal and marine influence of 11 states of the country. It was designed to address aspects related to climate change, clean technologies, invasive species, basic services to communities, environmental and territorial planning, productive activities (tourism, urban, industrial, agricultural, fishing), integral waste management, integral water management, vulnerability and risks to both the environment and the population and infrastructure, ecosystem conservation and others.

Unfortunately, the government of Quintana Roo, which participated in the planning and implementation of the instrument and made a commitment to publish it in its official state newspaper, in order to have recognition in local planning instruments, never did. Even so, for federal environmental impact 172