– This announcement by Mexico’s President Calderon represents a huge victory for environmental activists fighting to stop a mega-resort development proposed for one of the most productive coral reefs left in the world. My friends and I, who have a residence not far away on Baja’s Sea of Cortez, were very involved in the battle against a Spanish development outfit, Hansa Urbana. So were Mexico’s great poet and environmental leader, Homero Aridjis, along with the NRDC and Wildcoast organizations as well as local groups from Cabo Pulmo. This is the most important grassroots achievement in Mexico since President Zedillo cancelled the proposed saltworks at the gray whales’ pristine birthing habitat in Laguna San Ignacio in 2000, a story recounted in my book “Eye of the Whale.” – Dick Russell
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