“Los Petenes” Biosphere Reserve

Changes derived from its creation from the gaze of the mayan population of Tankuché (Campeche, México)

Abstract

The objective of this work is to establish how the mayan population of Tankuché of the state of Campeche, Mexico, belonging to the Los Petenes Biosphere Reserve, has adapted to the restrictions that the environmental public policy, imposed on the use of natural resources, on the occasion of the creation of said Natural Protected Area. The environmental public policy for that areas, as in the case of the Biosphere Reserves, in their quest to achieve sustainable development, restricts the use that affects ecosystems, but allows its inhabitants in productive activities, to generate economic benefits, not exclude them and thereby avoid conflicts arising from the use of natural resources, postulated by the ecological economy and political ecology. In this capacity, through ethnographic work, direct observation and semi-structured interviews with the Mayan population of Tankuché, it was revealed that it has attested to the transformation and decline of its activities with natural resources, of the primary sector, together with the increase of secondary and tertiary activities, which in turn has diversified, to generate income, contrary to the promotion of productive activities for the use of the environment , which promised to generate the area.