Cozumel Parks and Museums Foundation has cultural programs and community support, but it also has established social commitment for conservation of the Island’s natural resources, diffusion and valuation that, through the Conservation Management and Environmental Education it makes in a direct manner, through social programs addressed to our population; as well as the founding of monitoring and research projects about prioritized species and ecosystems in our community.

Maintainability, a term that involves the conservation of the environment with the community’s development and the means for survival, it implies the responsibility to approach society to have an adequate management knowledge of their resources, the importance of biodiversity y its specific characteristics.

Natural environment education is an important tool that allows us to make the correct decisions for the harmonious development of human activities and its interaction with the natural environment. The transmission of this information is made through the development of special protection programs for the natural environment in which society is involved, in field technical operations and theoretical knowledge of related aspects.

Among the conservation programs that are being implemented we have the protection of the marine turtle. At the Ecological Reserve Subject to the Conservation of Flora and Fauna, Colombia Lagoon, we have the Punta Sur Turtle Camp, which includes 8 Kilometers of beach for marine turtle nesting. In this program there are activities in the field that mark the nests, follow the process of incubation, liberation of young hatchings and the introspection of every brood for the management of statistical data. During the nesting season, we take student and community groups, on Saturday nights to watch the emergence process of hatchings.

Crocodile Conservation Program, in this activity we make a periodic capture of specimens to be tagged, gather morphology measurement data and sex, so we can keep a census and observation of the population conditions in the Colombia Lagoon Reserve. We also release crocodiles from human activity areas, for their protection. 

Conservation activities are performed for nesting birds on Punta Sur in order to keep data that allow us analyze the reproductive process, as well as their general condition in the island, through markings of nests to follow the process and reproductive success, or the observation of migrating birds while they pass through the island. There are workshops for the observation of singing or ground birds in different areas around the island.

There is a permanent activity in management of fauna, as well as reptiles (crocodiles, boas, iguanas, etc.), mammals (raccoons, coatis, martuchas, etc.), or birds that are found or captured by people in the community to us, for their control, proper care and release.

The Conservation Management has educational programs that spread among different level groups of the school community about solid waste management, proper use of water, different ecosystems knowledge of the island and their interaction.