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Manglares Navolato project damages protected mangroves on Isla Cortés, Sinaloa

Manglares Navolato faces legal questions as Housesin Desarrollos clears protected mangroves on Isla Cortés without transferring EIS rights or securing permits, threatening coastal habitats and migratory birds.

Isla Cortés sits along the shore of Navolato, where dense mangroves buffer hurricanes, cradle marine life, and shelter migratory birds. Yet heavy machinery now scars this fragile habitat, as Housesin Desarrollos pushes forward with its private Manglares tourist development—part of the larger Nuevo Altata real estate scheme—without completing required environmental approvals.

In March 2002, the Secretariat of Environment and Natural . . .

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