Sociedad Audubon de México
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Sociedad Audubon de México
Sociedad Audubon de México Trip to México City October 19-22, 2009 Itinerary Monday | 19 Oct 09 9:00 a.m. Meet at San Miguel where the bus will be ready to drive us to Mexico City. * Water, Granola Bars and fruit will be available. 1:00 p.m. Arrive at Emporio Reforma Hotel at which time you will find you room, settle in and be greeted by a bottle of red or white wine for the room (selection #1) as well as a complimentary Common Birds of Mexico City Handbook. * Emporio Reforma Hotel is member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World. Monday | 19 Oct 09 2:00 p.m. After settling in, the bus will be ready to drive us to Centro Universitario (UNAM) for our tour at the botanical garden. * We suggest getting (with anticipation) baguettes for Lunch at hotel's café. 3:00 p.m. Guided tour at Botanical Garden (UNAM) * Botanical Garden (exterior) 1 hour. * Faustino Miranda's Greenhouse 1 hour. * We suggest to wear sun block, cap or a hat to protect ourselves from sun. * Tour guides: Botanical Garden’s guides. Botanical Garden (UNAM) Monday | 19 Oct 09 Mexico's geographic location and its topographical features has allowed a wide variety of plants and flowers to thrive. The botanical garden at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the showpiece of this diversity. Aware of the nation's rich vegetation and flora, botanists at the Biology Institute of the strive to preserve living collections of native species from across the country. The Botanical Garden is located in Mexico City's Pedregal in San Angel behind the Olympic Stadium. One of the garden's most appealing attractions is its setting among lava outcroppings, the uneven, volcanic ground resulting from the volcano Xitle's eruption some 2500 years ago. It is a haven some 2,320 meters above sea level, sheltered and isolated from Mexico City's busy streets and urban surroundings. The Pedregal features mild weather and ample showers in the summer season. The collections of plants and flowers are divided into sections based on regions and the indigenous species found therein. There are detailed markers found throughout the garden with data such as scientific and common name, botanical family, where the species is found and its usages. As nearly 70 percent of Mexico's territory is covered by arid and semi-arid vegetation -- where weather is highly variable and rain is scarce -- the garden boasts a marvelous collection of plants from arid zones, including a variety of yuccas and agaves. This particular section also includes the Helia Bravo Desert Garden -- Helia Bravo was one of the garden's founding members -- which features an exceptional collection of cactus species. Botanical Garden (UNAM) Monday | 19 Oct 09 In the garden's "temperate zone", the arboretum stands out. This collection of living trees was created to display together samples from the temperate zones across the nation, found mostly in mountainous areas where pine trees and encinos prevail. The most important group of trees in this collection is precisely the pine tree family, characterized by their needle-like leaves. The timber is usually used to produce paper, wood products and charcoal. Also in the arboretum is a small collection of Liquidambar trees which grow in humid, cloud forests (i.e. Chiapas, Hidalgo and Oaxaca). As fall approaches, their usually light-green leaves change different shades of yellow and red. Firs, Mexican hawthorn trees and loquats are among the trees in the arboretum. In the tropical areas of the country, vegetation is exuberant with an enormous variety of species. The Manuel Ruiz Oronoz Greenhouse was built at the garden to showcase a variety of plants from these areas. Both the warm temperatures and humidity prevailing in Mexico's far-flung jungles are recreated in the greenhouse. Visitors sometimes are treated to a small waterfall, when it is operational. Among the species here is the pochote with its conic thorns (its trunk provides wood commonly used in the construction industry). Also found here are samples of barbasco -- or "cabeza de negro" -- used in the production of steroids, as well as the fat pepper tree, cherished for its scented seeds used as seasoning in traditional medicine. One section is devoted to plants traditionally used for ornamental purposes and another to medicinal plants, many of which are used in some traditional Mexican dishes. A pond marks the entrance to the ornamental and medicinal sections, which features the carob (an edible bush used to treat the cough), the hoja santa (used as a seasoning and in treating digestive complications), the lemon balm (used to treat nervousness), rosemary (used as a condiment and in treating hair-loss) and borage (an indigenous plant used to lower fever plus treat cough and rheumatism). Botanical Garden (UNAM) Monday | 19 Oct 09 Another attractive feature of the garden is the series of tiles depicting the many different butterfly types that frequent the area at different times of the year. For instance, visitors discover that the Danaus plexippus -- better known as the Monarch butterfly -- flits through the Valley of Mexico from June through December and its familiar image is colorfully portrayed on the white tile. Most of the tiles refer to the butterflies by their scientific names exclusively, such as the Nymphalis antiopa -- an insect that boasts purple wings with a yellow stripe along the fringes -- that is found throughout Mexico and can be seen in the Valley of Mexico year-round. Then there is the so-called "cara de perro", or dog face, which migrates annually from the United States to Guatemala and abounds in Mexico during the summer rainy season. http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/mexico/gardens/unam.html Monday | 19 Oct 09 5:15 p.m. After Botanical Garden visit, the bus will be ready to drive us to the Hotel. 7:00 p.m. For dinner we suggest the following restaurants: ° Condimento (Hotel's restaurant) ° Evita restaurant (at Embassy suites hotel one block away) Argentina style food ° Chilis at Reforma 222 mall www.alsea.com.mx/chilis/quienes.php ° Tezka at Zona Rosa www.tezka.com.mx Spain style food Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 6:15 a.m. Meet at Hotel's restaurant Condimento for buffet breakfast. 7:00 a.m. Departure to Desierto de los Leones National Park. 8:00 a.m. Birding tour at Desierto de los Leones * Birding guides: Gerardo del Olmo and Alyson from Bruja de Monte. Desierto de los Leones (National Park) Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 A short, hour drive from downtown Mexico City takes you to the fresh air and the dense pine and oak forests of Desierto de los Leones, Mexico's first national park. Located in the 3,000-meter high mountains on the southwestern side of the valley, the abundant springs were the major water source for Mexico City and the dense forests attracted pilgrims and loggers alike. The name of the park, which translates to 'Desert of the Lions' might appear misleading. If you're looking for Lawrence of Arabia-type sands, you will be disappointed. This is not a desert but an area named for its (one-time) inaccessibility. The Desierto is a pleasant retreat, made even sweeter by occasional Sunday concerts at the Carmelite monastery (completed in 1611) in the center of the park. CULTURAL HISTORY The Carmelites believed that they should worship in a house in the wilderness to honor their spiritual founder, Saint Elias as well as Santa Teresa de Jesus and San Juan de la Cruz. The barefoot Carmelites took vows of virtue, isolation, poverty and silence. They built their convent -Desierto de los Leones, named after the Leones family who were the monks' lawyers and spent almost 200 years paying homage to God in the wilderness. Desierto de los Leones (National Park) Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 As the centuries passed, Mexico City grew, so much so that the urban encroachment made the region not secluded enough for the spiritual pilgrims, so the monks moved to the town of Tenancingo, and the Desierto de Los Leones monastery became an "ex-convent" in 1801. NATURAL HISTORY The dense forests caught the eye of investors and in the 1880s Mexico City officials encouraged logging in the area - so much so that the excessive forestry caused a diminished flow from the springs that fed the Mexico City population. It was one of the clearest cases that deforestation had severe consequences in the country. As a result, a few years later, when the Mexico City government auctioned off land in the Desierto, it was with the proviso that the buyers agreed to conserve the springs and not cut down trees protecting the underground watershed. Such noble intentions did not go unchallenged, however. In 1914 Mexican president Victoriano Huerta proposed to convert the forest reserve into a casino operation. Huerta had various schemes - such as transplanting of trees from Mexico City streets to his ranch in the northern Mexico City district of Azcapotzalco - but this proposal of converting the park into a casino went bust amidst the bustle of the ongoing Revolution. To safeguard the forests, Mexico's premier conservationist Miguel Angel de Quevedo (source of the name for the "Quevedo" metro stop) urged President Venustiano Carranza to establish Desierto de los Leones as Mexico's first national park in 1917. Desierto de los Leones (National Park) Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 While the forests in this park and the Ajusco mountains in general still function as the lungs of Mexico City, they are not immune to environmental degradation. Prevailing wind patterns in the valley affect the forests and pollution contributed to a die-off of oyamel firs in Desierto de los Leones in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1996 government officials launched a new program called "S.O.S. Operation Desert" that combines reforestation programs, agroforestry, and new natural management techniques to boost the trees' health. Woodpeckers have been re-introduced into the forests to help restore balance to the ecosystem. http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/mexico/df/desierto.html Desierto de los Leones (National Park) Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 Preliminary Birding List Magnificent Hummingbird Gray-barred Wren House Wren Bushtit (black-eared) Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Mexican Chickadee American Robin Hermit Thrush Golden-browed Warbler Slate-throated Whitestart Hermit Warbler Townsend's Warbler Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler Black-headed Grosbeak Yellow-eyed Junco House Sparrow Red Warbler Strickland's Woodpecker Steller's Jay Green-striped Brush-Finch Rufous-capped Brush-Finch Slate-throated Redstart Crescent-chested Warbler Spotted Towhee Russet Nightingale-Thrush Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 11:30 a.m. End of birding, the bus will be ready to drive us to Xochimilco. 12:30 p.m. Canals and Gardens of Xochimilco Tour. *After the birding tour, we board our tour bus and proceed to Xochimilco, one of DF's best spots in the southern end of the city. Here we board a traditional water craft called trajinera, complete with flowers, mariachi musicians and a meal of mixiote, quesadillas, guacamole, nopal salad, and handmade tortillas. Xochimilco’s tour guide: Marlene Ehrenberg from Rebozo Xochimilco (Canals and Gardens) Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 A highlight of any trip to Mexico City is a visit to the canals and gardens of Xochimilco. ORIGINS 500 years ago Xochimilco was the agricultural hub of Tenochtitlán, a metropolis of 235,000 inhabitants. In the Náhuatl language of the Aztecs, the name Xochimilco means 'garden of flowers.' The flowers that lined the streets of the city and its rooftop gardens took root here. THE VALUE OF TOURISTS Xochimilco became recognized as a tourist attraction in its own right in the 1920s. European guidebooks romanticized the gardens and described Xochimilco as the Venice of Mexico. Today the region depends on tourism to maintain thousands of jobs -- from the musicians to the cooks to the craft vendors. As testament to the site's historic value, UNESCO declared Xochimilco a Cultural Heritage Site in 1987. Visits can assist local environmental conservation efforts. If you are taking a trip from the Nuevo Nativitas or Caltongo landings, ask your boatman to take you to the Apatlaco Canal where one family has set up a breeding area for the axolotl, an endangered salamander (pictured here). Contributions to support this work are encouraged. The International Union for Conservation of Nature includes the axolotl on its annual Red List of threatened species. Xochimilco (Canals and Gardens) Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 CHINAMPAS As in centuries past, canals surround raised agricultural fields called chinampas. Since the Valley of Mexico was originally wetlands, the chinampas were the most productive means of agricultural production. Between the eighth and tenth centuries, seven Nahua tribes arrived in the Valley of Mexico. The Xochimilca people founded their city at the southern tip of the valley. Another tribe, the Aztecs (or Mexica), founded Tenochtitlán and the Aztec empire farther north. Soon after the Aztecs' arrival, they conquered the Xochimilcas, whose agricultural fields, or chinampas, were used to provide the food for the growing Aztec empire. Today the D.F. encompasses the once-distant cities. ENDANGERED XOCHIMILCO In the early 1500s, before the Spanish conquest, chinampas covered nearly 9,000 hectares (22,230 acres) on Lakes Xochimilco and Chalco. Each hectare (2.47 acres) could feed about 20 people, thus supporting most of Tenochtitlán's residents. When the Spanish arrived, they began to drain the lake bed. Today's canals are the deepest of what was a much larger system. What was the proud agricultural hub became a neglected garden. Hundreds of years later, in the 1970s and 1980s, it became a depository for the city's waste waters. The many freshwater springs that once fed Lake Xochimilco were successively diverted to provide a water supply for Mexico City. More than two-thirds of the fields cultivated in the 1930s have been paved over by streets and homes. Xochimilco (Canals and Gardens) Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 Most of the water that reached the canals was contaminated by residential or industrial pollution and could not be used for food crops. The chinamperos chose to increase flower cultivation instead, using discarded oil cans filled with organic muck from the bottom of the canal. The area has suffered from environmental neglect. AGRICULTURAL ALTERNATIVES The chinampas should not be seen as mere historical artifacts, but as living examples of alternative agriculture. Farmers continue to scrape muck and organic debris from the canals, using the muck as fertilizer for the agricultural gardens. They harvest chilicastle, the plentiful, shiny blue-green algae that grows on the water's surface to help maintain the soil's fertility. Chinampas are formed by alternating layers of aquatic weeds, muck, and earth packed inside rectangular cane frames firmly rooted to the lake floor. You may hear them called floating gardens, but the term takes poetic license with the truth. Trees are planted along the edges of the fields. Their roots have long anchored the beds securely to the lake bottom. http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/mexico/df/xochimilco.html Xochimilco (Canals and Gardens) Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 3:00 p.m. After Gardens of Xochimilco tour, the bus will be ready to drive us to the Mercado de flores de Cuemanco (Cuemanco’s flowers market) or to the hotel. (selection #2) Tuesday | 20 Oct 09 5:00 p.m. After the visit to the lowers market the bus will drive us to the hotel. 7:00 p.m. For dinner we suggest the following restaurants ° Condimento (Hotel's restaurant) ° Evita restaurant (at Embassy suites hotel one block away) Argentina style food ° Chilis at Reforma 222 mall www.alsea.com.mx/chilis/quienes.php ° Tezka at Zona Rosa www.tezka.com.mx Spain style food Wednesday | 21 Oct 09 6:15 a.m. Meet at Hotel's restaurant Condimento for buffet breakfast. 7:00 a.m. Departure to Xochicalco 9:00 a.m. Birding tour at Xochicalco Arqueological Site * Birding guides: Gerardo del Olmo and Alyson from Bruja de Monte. Xochicalco (Arqueological site) Wednesday | 21 Oct 09 Several ancient civilizations developed astonishingly accurate calendars. Even so, occasional adjustments were needed to bring the calendar back in line with solar events. Archaeologists studying the site of Xochicalco, just outside the city of Cuernavaca in central Mexico, believe that a major conference of astronomers was held there in the eighth century A.D. in order to implement an adjustment of six days. The conference may have been a sequel to an earlier astronomical gathering (700 A.D.) held in Copán, in modern-day Honduras, commemorated at that site by a richly-decorated altar. An altar may have been good enough to commemorate the Copán gathering, but in Xochicalco the organizers went one stage further and built an entire lavishly decorated pyramid as a memorial to the event. The scenic and imposing ruins visible at Xochicalco today reflect only a small proportion of what was formerly a much more extensive city. The name Xochicalco means "place of the home of the flowers", and perhaps the city was once flower-bedecked, but nowadays its flattened hilltop platforms are decidedly semi-arid in character. Numerous constructions, linked by cobblestone tracks, rise above the platforms; they include palaces, temples, ball courts and more than one "observatory". The central plaza is graced by the amazing Pyramid of the Plumed Serpents. Relatively small (only about 6 meters tall), it has two levels and may have been roofed at one time. Its talud y tablero style (with a gently sloping lower section surmounted by a vertically-sided table) echoes many of the buildings at Teotihuacan. This is probably no accident. Researchers believe that Xochicalco, first settled around 200 A.D., reached its peak only after the decline of the influential city of Teotihuacan, which, at its height in around 750 A.D., was one of the world's largest cities, with an estimated population of 500,000. Xochicalco (Arqueological site) Wednesday | 21 Oct 09 The Pyramid of the Plumed Serpents ( Pirámide de Quetzalcóatl) derives its name from a series of eight plumed stone serpents that wind around its base. Their sinuous bodies frame magnificently adorned seated figures. The serpents appear to be swallowing sun disks, a reference to solar eclipses. Traces of original pigment show that the panels were once colored. The details of jewelry, shields and headdresses suggest the figures represent high-standing officials of some kind, perhaps the astronomers themselves. The second level of the pyramid is decorated with pairs of seated figures. Close examination reveals that the styles of the figures on each side of the pyramid are very different. The styles reflect four different major regional cultural groups of the time: the Maya (southern Mexico and neighboring countries), the Zapotec (Oaxaca Valley), the Teotihuacanos (central Mexico) and the Totonac (Gulf coast of Mexico). Presumably, astronomers from all four cultures met here (on neutral territory?) and this unusual monument was built to commemorate their success in finding a solution to a calendar that had become out of sync with the natural year. According to Roberto Salido Beltrán, this calendric fix was to suppress six days of the ancient calendar, between day 1-Casa (One House) and 11-Mono (11 monkey). Salido cites as his main evidence a glyph centered on the sign for a house. Two hands reach out from this glyph. The right hand, fingers outstretched, rests on a block. The left hand holds a cord leading to the glyph for 11monkey. In terms of our calendar, this event occurred in 765 A.D. Xochicalco remained prominent until about 1000 A.D., after which it was abandoned. When the Spaniards arrived in the sixteenth century, they learned of the ruins, but had no inkling of their astronomical significance. Xochicalco (Arqueological site) Wednesday | 21 Oct 09 In the past twenty years or so, several other major findings have arisen from studies of Xochicalco's astronomical importance. The site lies at a latitude of 18o47" North. At this latitude, the sun is at its zenith (highest point, exactly overhead at mid-day) on May 15 and July 28. It is well documented that observing (and celebrating) the solar zenith was very important throughout Mexico at the time the Spaniards arrived, even though modern attempts to revive the ancient practices have not met with much success. Two of the many natural underground caves at Xochicalco, show clear evidence of architectural modification, including the perforation of an artificial hole or "chimney" from the cave to the ground above. These vertical shafts would have enabled very precise observations and measurements of solar and possibly planetary events. For instance, the vertical north side of the 5-meter-long "chimney" down into one cave would have resulted in a precisely vertical beam of sunlight on the day of the zenith. The south side of the chimney slopes at an angle of 4o23'. Is it simply a coincidence that this is the exact angle for light to be parallel to this side on June 21, the day of the Summer solstice? Archeoastronomers think not! The dimensions and geometry of this chimney ensure that some light enters the cave every day from April 30 (15 days before the first of the two annual zeniths) to August 12 (15 days after the second). Put another way, the cave receives light every day from precisely 52 days before the solstice to 52 days after it. The number 52 was of immense significance in the pre-Columbian calendar, since it took exactly 52 (solar) years for both the solar calendar and the ritual calendar (of 260 days each) to return simultaneously to the equivalent of 0-0. Xochicalco (Arqueological site) Wednesday | 21 Oct 09 Another fascinating finding, first published in México Desconocido, is that from the "Acropolis" of the site, on zenith days, the sun rises exactly behind Popocatépetl volcano on the eastern horizon. The effect does not occur even one day before or after the zenith. Given the polluted skies over Mexico City, it is difficult to guarantee witnessing this effect nowadays! The site of Xochicalco is living proof of one of the most important scientific summits ever held in the history of the Americas. The congress of astronomers from all over the zone held to agree the calendric correction was a landmark event in the history of science worldwide. http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1176-did-you-know-mexico-s-ancient-astronomers-had-sophisticated-calendars Xochicalco (Arqueological site) Wednesday | 21 Oct 09 Preliminary Birding List Lesser Ground Cuckoo Squirrel Cuckoo Lesser Roadrunner Hooded Oriole West Mexican Chachalaca Bridled Sparrow … the list will be completed soon. Wednesday | 21 Oct 09 12:30 p.m. Lunch* time after the birding tour We board our bus and proceed to Coatetelco lake for lunch, a community some 25 minutes to the south of Xochicalco. Here we will eat fresh-caught mojarra from the lake, with caldos and sopes and cold beers. It is not elegant, but as we eat right beside the lake we consider it beautiful. The loncherias are quite humble (humilde) but in a way it is 100% authentic Mexico, and the food is good. It’s recommend more for the adventurous who wish a more authentic experience. Otherwise we can go to the Hacienda San Antonio El Puente which is part of a small collection of haciendas and restaurants known as Tesoros de Morelos.com all of which will give us a good meal in good surroundings. Please bear in mind that for this level of quality, we will also have to pay a good size bill! It really depends on our decision, if we expect the best service then definitely this restaurant is the ideal. (selection #3) * This are suggestions for lunch (this meals are not included in the trip cost.) } Wednesday | 21 Oct 09 1:00 p.m. Lunch 2:30 p.m. Departure to Mexico City 4:30 p.m. Arrival at hotel 7:00 p.m. Farewell dinner at El Bajío Restaurant Thursday | 22 Oct 09 08:00 a.m. Meet at Hotel's restaurant Condimento for buffet breakfast. 10:30 a.m. Load bus for our trip home. 11:00 a.m. Group departure to San Miguel de Allende 3:00 p.m. Arrival to San Miguel Allende About the advisory group & tour guides Gerardo del Olmo Marlene Ehrenberg Carmen & Rodrigo brujademonte.com.mx marlene-ehrenberg.com.mx travelian.com.mx Birding guide Xochimilco and UNAM guide sustainable tourism at Mexico Gerardo del Olmo Gerardo del Olmo Gerardo del Olmo was born in Mexico City in 1958. His passion for birds took him to develop the illustration technique in a self-taught form which you see on these pages. His artwork has been recognized by the Mexican Government, which included him in the national illustrator catalogue. He also participated as an illustrator on the primary school books, and his work has been shown in several museums in Mexico and Spain. He collaborates as an illustrator and photographer in several national publications. His artwork is inspired by the many colorful and exotic birds of Mexico. He also creates oil and pencil drawings, however most of his artwork is done in colored ink. "The Lophornis delattrei, (Rufous-crested Coquette), it is a beautiful hummingbird which lives in the tropics in south of Mexico and in Central America, this bird was used, among others, by the natives of prehispanic Mexico, for the practice of the beautiful and hard art of feather. Because of its crest, and due to the principal God of the Aztecs was Huitzilopochtli, which means left-handed hummingbird, I think this little bird deeply influenced in the feather artists. For the confection the famous, plumes and feather tiaras that were so commonly used by the Mexicas emperors. Lophornis delattrei is part of a collection of six illustrations, which I painted to illustrate the book "Huitzilin" The Hummingbird of the Antique Mexico, and can be appreciated in the website originalbirdart." Gerardo del Olmo http://www.originalbirdart.com/del-olmo.htm Gerardo del Olmo Gerardo del Olmo is the art and investigation director and founder of Bruja de Monte, an environmental organization dedicated to the conservation of birds. He has many years of experience as a scientific and natural history artist, falconer, and ecologist. He is passionate about bird conservation, habitat protection, and public education, and has published a field guide to the birds of Mexico City. "One of the most serious problems in Mexico, with relation to the birds, is the lack of clear and up-todate information," del Olmo said. Marlene Ehrenberg Marlene Ehrenberg Organizer, Specialized ecotourism/nature tourism/cultural tours throughout Mexico as REBOZO: Creator, Agua para el Mañana, with the logo”Mariposa de Agua” water-saving campaign in the hotel industry. Coordinator, North America Sister Canyons Project (Canada, México and the U.S.A.) Skills Multilingual Spanish, English, German, French and Italian, some Portuguese and Hebrew. More than 30 years experience in designing, ecoturistical/cultural itineraries leading and organizing unusual tours. Consultant and conferences on ecotourism and adventure, workshops, seminars and training courses. Professional Experience 1968-Date : designer of eco- and adventure tours in nature since and for the Olympic Games in México. 1992 : Conseptualized "Ruta de Cortés" circuit as an adventure in both cultural history and nature, giving SECTUR a new program. 1994 : Co-founder of AMTAVE 1998 : Organized course on ecotourism planning and marketing, University "Faculdade da Cidade", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1998-2000 : President of AMTAVE AC Marlene Ehrenberg 1998-2000 : Invited to open and preside the chapters of Ecotourism at the Consejo Turistico Empresarial, Executive Tourist Commission, at the Comisión Ejecutiva de Turismo, Tourism Executive Committee at the Consejo de Promoción Turistica de México, Tourism Promotion Council of México and at the Chamber of Deputies for the Federal Law of Tourism. 2000 : Designer and coordinator of the Pabellon Ecoturistico at the 2000 Tianguis Turistico, for SECTUR (ministry of tourism) 2000 : Co-founder of Red Bioplanet@ Professional Associations/Memberships AMERYCOP AC AMTAVE AC Guias Interpretes Profesionales AC Red Méxicana de Ecoturismo , Consejo de Promocion Turistica de México, Red Bioplanet@ AC Bibliography of online Articles and Presentations Taller Tarahumara (Español)* Comision Jalcomulco (Español)* Agua para el Mañana (Español)* Zona del Silencio (Español)* etc. Thank you ! Carmen Silva & Rodrigo López + 52 55 4171 4270 + 52 55 5576 0940 + 52 55 1827 3552 [email protected] www.travelian.com.mx