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Laguna San Ignacio/Baja

Mexico

The San Ignacio Lagoon is home to the world’s last untouched gray whale nursery. Every year, hundreds of gray whales congregate at the lagoon to give birth and nurse their young in its shallow, nurturing waters. But this same lagoon—and the nearly 800-mile long coastline that surrounds it—are also under tremendous pressure from overfishing, unregulated tourism schemes and destructive industrial projects.