The Organization of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), rejected the proposal to declare
the Banco Chinchorro Reserve as cultural and natural heritage of mankind.
* Proposes the
alternative of forming a joint project with the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve
proposal to join as one.
The
Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), rejected the proposal to declare the Banco Chinchorro Reserve as cultural and natural
heritage of mankind, in return, asked to form a joint project with the Reserve
Sian Ka'an to join as one and be appointed only "natural heritage".
The process could take up to three years to complete, said the director of
Chinchorro, Maria Del Carmen Garcia Rivas.
In late August 2011, a UNESCO mission headed by
General Director of Institutional Development and Promotion of the National
Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP), Mariana Bellot Rojas, conducted
a review in the Biosphere Reserve Banco Chinchorro to consider joining the list
of World Heritage in Mixed mode (cultural and natural).
Although the same Conanp and the Ministry of
Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), had recognized the Chinchorro
natural wealth also is in good condition and is considerably the importance of
place as a barrier reef, as well have cultural significance for the stranded
shipwrecks from the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the project was not
approved in its entirety.
The director, Maria del Carmen Garcia Rivas, said that
"unfortunately sent the report (Unesco) and the result was to be entered
next to Sian Ka'an (which is a World Natural Heritage) with the cayes of
Belize, and unfortunately did not see it as a mixed heritage and cultural
joined environmental and integrated although not think that one plus one is
two, you can combine what is different, "he said.
Nevertheless, he said, are motivated because the
result was positive anyway. Considered to Mexico should not go against the
determination of UNESCO.
"We do not
want to go against the views of experts and good recommended us enter it
together with Sian Ka'an" he said.
As compared to
the implications of what was projected in the first instance, Garcia Rivas said
it would be a less for the country, and they must work together to Sian Ka'an,
a site which is only considered heritage land and sea level.
"In the
end, one does not always win, but the experience that strengthens us know at
first whether it was a hit, but every day we recognize other
associations," he said, adding that about two to three years lead the
process to determine Banco Chinchorro Reserve, Sian Ka'an World Heritage Site,
which would attract more financial resources for the conservation of the site.
(Source: The Quintana Roo)
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