Bahia de Loreto National Park is established
Mexico establishes a marine and coastal national park of 206,580.75 hectares in the Gulf of California, about 88 percent of it sea surface, taking in five main islands. It is added to the Ramsar list in 2004 and included in the Gulf of California World Heritage inscription in 2005. It gives the winter end of the eastern North Pacific migration a protected coastal core - the part of the route where nursing females and calves concentrate.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Bahia de Loreto National Park · protected_area · Mexico
- Gulf of California · maritime region · Mexico · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Fine-Scale Population Structure of Blue Whale Wintering Aggregations in the Gulf of California; with the Bahia de Loreto National Park record
The Gulf of California is a winter, calving and feeding area for northeastern Pacific blue whales that feed off California in summer; nursing mothers and calves show a particular preference for the coastal waters of Bahia de Loreto National Park, and females in different reproductive states return to the gulf. The park was established on 19 July 1996, covers 206,580.75 hectares of which about 88 percent is sea surface, and takes in the islands of Coronados, Del Carmen, Danzante, Montserrat and Santa Catalina. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to these sources; none was fetched.
PLOS ONE / PubMed Central; and the Bahia de Loreto National Park gazetteer and IWC Whale Watching Handbook case study · 2013 (population structure); park established 1996 · Partly verified
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591444/ ; https://wwhandbook.iwc.int/en/case-studies/mexico-loreto-bay
Recorded on Bahia de Loreto National Park
- Bahia de Loreto National Park is established
- Tagged whales confirm the Gulf of California as a wintering ground
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