Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park
(park information, links to ecotourism)

Islas del Golfo Protected Area

Loreto Bay National Marine Park

Valle de los Cirios

Pulmo Amigos  
(local Cabo Pulmo NGO)

Sierra de la Laguna Reserve

Sierra San Pedro Mártir

• Moon Travel Guides (park description)
  Mexican National Astronomical Observatory

Vizcaíno Reserve 
See a description of the park
Ve la descripción del parque

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Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum
(ASDM) English & Spanish resources

• ASDM Center for Sonoran Desert Studies
• ASDM Digital Library
• ASDM Desert Fact Sheets
• Desert Q&A

Desert USA

First grade bilingual curriculum

Flora of Baja California (SDNHM)

San Diego Natural History Museum (SDNHM)

TerraPeninsular

Cabo Tortugas

Euroturtle.org

Grupo Tortuguero research archive

International Sea Turtle Society

Magdalena Baykeepers
(Grupo Tortuguero) English or Español

National Geographic Sea Turtle Gallery
National Geographic "Swimming for Survival"

Propeninsula

Save the Turtles
(see guidelines for good turtle beach etiquette)

The Science Exchange - Intercambios Científicos at San Diego State University sets up internships in Baja California and other parts of Latin America to work on sea turtle conservation.

See Turtle Conservation Travel (a non-profit ecotourism project that brings travelers and conservationists to key turtle hotspots)

Tortugueros Las Playitas, A.C. Todos Santos, B.C.S. (adopt a baby sea turtle, volunteer)

Wildcoast

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American Cetacean Society

Gray whale characteristics

Gray whale fact sheet ACS

Another fact sheet

National Geographic Whale Page

Nice range and migration maps

NRDC
(National Resources Defense Council)

Baja’s Friendly Whales
(Reader’s Digest article and other links)

Watching whales watching us
New York Times article 07/2009

Whale hunting (Greenpeace)

El Vallecito
(history, description and location of this site)

San Ignacio area information

Article on baja paintings by Mark Rose

Antigüedad del arte rupestre de Baja California (Dec 2002)
INAH.  Comunicado de prensa.

Corazón Vaquero/The Heart of the Cowboy: A Journey into California’s Final Frontier

Crosby, Harry (1997). The Cave Paintings of Baja California: Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People. Sunbelt Publications.

Pinturas rupestres más antiguas de America.
(May 2008).  INAH

Una introducción al arte rupestre
(An introduction to rock art - Spanish only)

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Baja by Kayak (sea kayaking, whales, turtles, birds, also a Spanish Immersion program while on your tour! Local Baja operator Pancho Mayoral)

Baja Discovery
(whale watching, caves, ecotours)

Casa Leree Guesthouse and Bookstore
(San Ignacio)

Ecoturismolatino.com
(Information on ecotourism in Latin America - English and Spanish versions)

Ecoturismo Kuyimá
(whales, birds, turtles, Vizcaíno, cave paintings, kayaking, camping)

Ignacio Springs B&B
(yurts in San Ignacio)

Links to Northern Baja Calfornia eco-operators

Meling Ranch
(Sierra San Pedro Mártir area guest ranch)

Mulegé Tours
(La Trinidad & San Patricio sites)

Pachico Ecotours
(whale watching, kayaking Laguna San Ignacio)

Tour Baja
(Paddling South — Pedaling South
— Saddling South — Baja Sailing)

Aeromedicos Santa Barbara &
Flying Samaritans
(Volunteer medical missions. A great way to volunteer or donate to improving public health in remote areas of the peninsula)

Eco-Alianza de Loreto, A.C.
(network of activists working on issues affecting Loreto and the peninsula)

Eco-Educadores Verde y Azul
de B.C.S. A.C.(NGO founded by Patricia Baum in Todos Santos, B.C.S. who uses “field service learning and…media to get young people excited about the environment”)

Grupo Tortuguero
(network of turtle activists, NGO’s, ecotourism)
See also: Grupo Tortuguero research archive

NOLS
(National Outdoor Leadership School)

Proesteros
(Wetland conservation in northern BC) in Spanish

Propeninsula 
(adopt-a-sea-turtle, peninsula-wide activities)

Ramsar Convention on Wetlands homepage

Sea Watch
(issues affecting the seas and its inhabitants in Baja)

Sociedad de Historia Natural Niparajá, A.C.
(La Paz, BCS)

TerraPeninsular
(land purchase/conservation in northern BC)

WildCoast
(peninsula-wide activities, media blitzes)

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CONABIO
Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity)—responsible for managing protected areas
See also: Biodiversity portal

CONANP
Comisión Nacional de las Áreas Naturales Protegidas 
See also: el material didáctico (Spanish only)

PROFEPA
Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente (Federal Prosecutor for the Protection of the Environment)—Mexico’s judicial branch of the environmental protection agency  

SEMARNAT 
Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources—Mexico’s legislative branch of  the environmental protection agency.
See also: SEMARNAT digital library of resources (Spanish only)

Books

Almost an Island: Travels in Baja California (1998). Bruce Berger. University of Arizona Press

Baja California Plant Field Guide (Revised edition). Norman Roberts (1989) Natural History Publishing Co. ISBN: 0960314415 ISBN13: 9780960314416

The Baja Highway: A Biology and Geology Field Guide for the Baja Traveler. (1991) John A. Minch. John A. Minch and Associates.

Sea of Cortez Marine Animals: A Guide to the Common Fishes and Invertebrates Baja California to Panama (1998). Daniel W. Gotshall.  Sea Challengers.

Guide to Marine Invertebrates: Alaska to Baja California, 2nd edition (revised) (2005). Daniel W. Gotshall. Sea Challengers.

A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California (1987). Ann Zwinger and Herman H. Zwinger. University of Arizona Press.

The Log from the Sea of Cortez.  John Steinbeck. Penguin Books

The Forgotten Peninsula: A Naturalist in Baja California. Joseph Wood Krutch.  University of Arizona Press.

Articles and Photos

Great photos of Baja California and other southwest US rock art (English only)

Photos from Harry Crosby’s book on Baja's rock art

Saving Sea Turtles from the Ground Up: Awakening Sea Turtle Conservation in Northwestern Mexico

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