Mexico lost 27,622ha of mangrove between 2020 and 2025, with real estate development, irregular clearing, agriculture, and aquaculture among the main pressures on these coastal ecosystems, according to the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO). Mangrove coverage declined from 905,086ha in 2020 to 877,464ha in 2025.
Despite the decline, Mexico remains the world’s fourth-largest country in terms of mangrove coverage, accounting for 6% of the global total, behind Indonesia at 19%, Australia at 9% and Brazil at 7%. Mangroves are present across Mexico’s 17 coastal states and cover about 0.4% of the country’s territory.
CONABIO’s Mangroves of Mexico: Update and Spatial Dynamics 2025, the latest five-year assessment under the Mexican Mangrove Monitoring System, identified 52,130ha of disturbed mangrove in 2025. The area, which includes dead or…
