TERRA NEWS
Where Are We Heading? Text by César Guerrero and Bárbara Ramírez / Terra Peninsular Photos by Laura Tamayo, Enrique Alfaro and Bárbara Ramírez This article was translated by Amairani Márquez and Manuel Eduardo Mendoza
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erra Peninsular was created in 2001 in response to a threat of massive habitat loss in San Quintín Bay as a means to counteract the damaging effects and potential total destruction of this bay. At that time, there was no organization that had the legal feasibility of buying lands for conservation, something similar to what already existed in the United States with The Nature Conservancy. In Mexico, although there were very strong and good organizations, they did not have the capacity or legal argument in their statues to acquire lands. For this reason, on April 20, 2001, Terra Peninsular was created as a land conservation organization to protect the ecosystems of the peninsula of Baja California. It is said that organizations go through different stages, just as individuals do. When we are children, it is time to learn about the world and what surrounds us; when we become young, we are ambitious and dream of independence and a bright future, but it is usually the stage where we fall and learn the most; when we are adults, we reach a stage of maturity where we put into practice everything we have learned, both good and bad experiences.
Photo: Laura Tamayo.
Photo: Laura Tamayo.
At first, it was not clear to us how to do what we wanted to do. We never had any doubts about the final goal, but we did have doubts about how to get there or what path to take,
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