Environmental Service*

Objectives

Who must perform the actions and then receive a payment for them

Complementary actions

Tidal protection and

flood control

- Reforestation of areas that have suffered excessive cutting.

- Protection in areas with preserved mangroves.

- Ejidatarios and land co-owners.

- Possessors.

- Private owners.

Concessionaires

Sediment accumulation and soil formation

- Reforestation of areas that have suffered excessive cutting.

- Protection in areas with preserved mangroves.

- Ejidatarios and land co-owners.

- Possessors.

- Private owners.

Concessionaires

Area for breeding, shelter and feeding of species

- Establish strict closure periods.

- Organise a surveillance group.

- Restrict the fishing of species where the number of examples is compromised.

Working team of owners, ejidos, communities, and possessors

Municipal

governments

Scenic beauty

- Residental collection of rubbish within the mangroves, on the banks of lagoons and within lagoons.

Fishermen

- Municipal

- Governments.

- Municipal inhabitants.

Food production

- Establish strict closure periods.

- Organise a surveillance group.

- Restrict the fishing of species where the number of examples is compromised.

Working team of owners, ejidos, communities, and possessors

Municipal

governments

Habitat for human populations

- Establish mangrove use and maintenance rules.

This is a service that does not have to be paid; the establishment of rules of use and maintenance of the mangrove has to be respected by all and does not represent a cost.

Pollution control and improvement of water quality

- Reduce the emission of pollutants coming from upstream.

- Periodic analysis of water quality in the Lagoon System.

- Ejidatarios and land co-owners.

- Possessors.

- Private owners.

Companies and industries.

Veracruzana University, Veracruz, Mexico or research institutions.

Oxygen production and carbon dioxide capture

- Reforestation of areas that have suffered excessive cutting.

- Protection in areas with preserved mangroves.

- Ejidatarios and land co-owners.

- Possessors.

- Private owners.

Concessionaires