In the municipality of Marqués de Comillas, the Chiapas government declared the area known as Kixin Yo Shoo–Las Cavernas, located in the San Isidro ejido, a Protected Natural Area. Spanning over 950 hectares, it is one of the largest areas incorporated into the state’s conservation program during the current administration.
The declaration was made under the category of Zone Subject to Ecological Conservation, which implies restrictions on land use, but also opens a new framework for the relationship between environmental conservation, local communities, and regional development in a key area of the Lacandon Jungle.
During the ceremony, Governor Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar stated that the state’s environmental policy seeks to advance through agreements with communities, avoiding unilateral decrees and ensuring that conservation provides tangible benefits for those who live in these areas.
Alongside the environmental declaration, the governor announced community hiking projects with a focus on tourism, as well as road and educational improvement initiatives, with the intention of ensuring that the protection of the territory is not isolated from the local development agenda.
According to technical information, the reserve is part of a strategic biological corridor for endangered species such as the scarlet macaw, the spider monkey, and the howler monkey, which reinforces its environmental value beyond the state level.
As part of the tour, the governor also inaugurated the reconstruction of a section of the E.C. Fronteriza del Sur–Zamora Pico de Oro–Las Guacamayas–Boca de Chajul highway, with an investment of over 62 million pesos. This project aims to improve connectivity for historically isolated communities and facilitate tourist access to the region.
The combination of the environmental decree and infrastructure investment demonstrates a strategy that attempts to balance conservation, mobility, and economic development in an area where, for decades, the state’s presence has been limited.
The movement places Marqués de Comillas at the center of the environmental and territorial agenda of Chiapas, and opens the challenge of ensuring that ecological protection translates into real and sustainable benefits for the communities that inhabit one of the most important natural lungs of the country.
Source: aquinoticias
