A 27 year (and counting) ban on commercial and sustenance fishing has allowed previously endangered species, ... Take a walk along the beach of Punta Cabo Pulmo to Punta Los Frailes, ...

Thanks to a drastic recovery plan from overfishing, Cabo Pulmo transformed itself into a refuge for hunted species and a lovingly protected marine national park that triggered an eco-tourism boom.

Banner image:A strip of protected beach in the Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park. Photo via Jeff Gunn/Flickr. FEEDBACK: Use this form to send a message to the author of this post.

Cabo Pulmo, a remote knob of classic Baja landscape with an underwater world singularly blessed by nature, slumbered for decades on the peninsula's East Cape. It rarely made a blip on the tourism ...