Mexico's Parque del Jaguar protects jaguars with 18-kilometre limestone wall
Colectivo C733 has created an 18-kilometre-long limestone wall that allows wildlife to pass through while protecting more than 1,000 hectares of forest at Parque del Jaguar in Tulum, Mexico.
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The project aims to safeguard one of the region's important habitats for jaguars, whose movement through the landscape had become disrupted by roads, development and tourism.
Rather than creating a conventional enclosed nature reserve, Colectivo C733 designed a network of boundaries, access points and visitor facilities intended to protect the animals' habitat while allowing people to explore the area.
The park occupies a coastal territory containing tropical forest, mangroves, underground rivers and karstic geology, as well as the ancient Mayan archaeological site of Tulum.
Its landscape had also been affected by contaminated soil around a former airstrip and habitat disruption caused by the Cancún-Tulum highway.
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