THE MESOAMERICAN REEF (MAR) LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

The MAR Leadership Program is an ambitious joint initiative of the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature and the Summit Foundation that started in 2010. The program seeks to accelerate conservation impacts in the MAR Ecoregion by empowering emerging leaders who are at the early-career level to develop innovative and replicable projects that address present or emerging threats facing the region’s coastal and marine ecosystems. The program aims to advance long-term conservation of the MAR by equipping a critical mass of outstanding individuals with the knowledge, skills, and necessary tools as well as networking opportunities they need to initiate and implement high impact conservation projects.

We believe that local communities working to protect the marine and coastal resources that are furthermore well connected nationally and internationally through our network are key to the sustainability of the region. This local-regional approach offers long-term high impact conservation initiatives in favor of nature and the people who depend on it.

Since 2022 the Program began to be managed by Sureste Sostenible A.C., a regional Mexican environmental fund whose objective is to channel, catalyze and coordinate projects for conservation, sustainable use of biodiversity and climate change through the establishment of strategic alliances and the work in conjunction with governments, civil society organizations, academic institutions, the private sector, and communities in Quintana Roo, Campeche, Yucatan, Tabasco, and in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras as part of the MAR for this Program.

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MAR Leadership has the mission of creating change makers through the development of a cadre of leaders from different sectors with a strong understanding of socioeconomic and environmental issues impacting the MAR and the skills to advocate for and influence positive change.