Libitu, the 240-hectare Nayarit resort area three kilometers north of Punta Mita on the road to Sayulita, is not only seeing a slowdown in sales and construction due to the economic crisis, but now concerns about the resort’s ecological impact on the zone have come to the fore.
According to Erik Saracho of the environmental group Alianza de Costa Verde, the destruction of some 79 hectares of mangroves, coconut and palm forests to make way for the golf course have badly affected local fauna, including jaguars, iguanas, boas, tarantulas and other animals.
Only one of the four condo/hotel complexes, La Tranquila, is rising, although slowly, along the golf course. That project is scheduled to open in July 2010 but more than half of the 400 construction workers there were laid off last August.
Playa Libitu is a project sponsored by Mexico’s Tourism Development Authority (Fonatur). Construction began in 2006 and the golf course is scheduled to open this winter.
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