UNESCO

The Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California (Mexico) inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger

The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Baku since 30 June, has decided to inscribe the Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California (Mexico) on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to ...
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The record of Native people on Gulf of California islands / Thomas Bowen

"In the last century historians and anthropologists interested in northwestern Mexico knew that Indians had inhabited four large islands in the Gulf of California. Since 1900 ethnohistorical and ...
UNESCO

Concerns over the Vaquita in the Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California (Mexico)

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is receiving a high number of e-mails expressing great concern for the possible extinction, in the near future, of the vaquita, a critically endangered porpoise ...
Center for Biological Diversity

World Heritage Committee Reaffirms Vaquita Protections, Demands Binational Border Wall Restoration Plan

PARIS— The UNESCO World Heritage Committee approved several decisions today aligned with longstanding Center for Biological Diversity petitions to protect some of the planet’s most imperiled natural ...
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On desert shores archaeology and history of the Western Midriff Islands in the Gulf of California Thomas Bowen

How It Began -- Getting There -- Finding Sites -- Recording Sites -- part I Setting the Stage -- 1. A Tour of the Islands -- The San Lorenzo Archipelago -- Isla Angel de la Guarda -- Satellite Islands ...