March 2007

Mexico advances effort to save whale nursery

In a major leap forward in our ambitious campaign to protect the world's last unspoiled gray whale nursery, the Mexican government donated 109,000 acres of federal lands surrounding the San Ignacio Lagoon for conservation. In 2000, NRDC activists helped defeat Mitsubishi's plans to build the world's largest industrial saltworks on these same lands. Mexico's recent donation will seriously undermine any future attempts to revive the plan.