Public Spaces with Environmental Importance: The Case of the Paseo de Los Lagos del Dique in Xalapa, Mexico

Jorge Guzmán-Guillermo, and Clementina Barrera-Bernal

Faculty of Biology of the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

Abstract: Here we refer puntal environmental characteristics about El Paseo de Los Lagos del Dique as important alternatives for ex situ conservation. Furthermore, we discuss the aims propoused for the ex situ conservation in various international environmental document. We finalice this work with preeliminary results of a perseption study of the turist on El Paseo de Los Lagos del Dique and a definition of Biocultural Muralism.

Key words: public space, biocultural muralism, ex situ conservation