Tim Means (environmentalist) (original) (raw)

Timothy "Timoteo" Irwin Means Heinemann (March 13, 1944 – August 13, 2019) was an American Mexican ecotourism pioneer and environmentalist, who advocated for the protection and preservation of the Baja California peninsula and its wildlife. He was a catalyst for the Federal government of Mexico's designation of Isla Espíritu Santo as an area of ecological significance and national protected area in 1994, declared subsequently part of a Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In 2007, Mexico named the Isla Espíritu Santo Archipelago a national park.