Strategic Action Program of the Gulf of Mexico Large Marine Ecosystem

About this project

Marine ecosystems and their contributing freshwater basins are transboundary in nature by virtue of interconnected currents, pollution, movement and migration of marine living resources, and mismanagement of a large marine and coastal ecosystem has negative impacts on the global environment at a multitude of levels. Excessive fishing, destruction of critical coastal and marine habitats, and nutrient over-enrichment greatly threaten the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico and can potentially affect the countries and populations that depend on it.\n\nA new integrated vision must not only take into account biological and physical components alike but be spatial, multi-disciplinary, multi-criteria, multi-sectorial, and multi-scale. Such a paradigm shift is expected to facilitate the emergence of conservation science with a social dimension, which not only takes into consideration the need to protect the ecosystems, but promotes the involvement of those managing, utilizing and/or depending on it.\n\nTogether with UNEP, UNOPS action aims to improve water quality, enhance economic vitality and restore marine ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico, using Ecosystem Based Management tools.

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United Nations Office for Project Services · Multilateral

Countries

Mexico

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Environmental policy and administrative management

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United Nations Office for Project Services

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United Nations Office for Project Services

Published by United Nations Office for Project Services to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 27 Jan 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: 41AAA-22298-001.

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