Boca Del Alamo Community and Resource Restoration Initiative

Over 20 years ago, the Cabo Pulmo community in the East Cape successfully pushed for creation of a marine national park and no-take fishing zone. Cabo Pulmo has been a phenomenal success recognized the world over for its coastal protection, restoration of marine biodiversity, and connection to improved livelihoods. However, Cabo Pulmo cannot, by itself, restore the region’s coastal resources or provide for the hundreds of traditional fishing families in Cabo del Este. The Boca del Alamo community wants to learn from and follow Cabo Pulmo. LegacyWorks has been invited to assist in formally exploring land and marine protection, hand in hand with social and economic development. We are working to create a terrestrial, aquatic, social and economic resource inventory as a management baseline and point of departure for planning. We seek to ensure that the Boca del Alamo community is willing and able to commit to conservation that also provides tangible social and economic benefits.