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Mexico is considered a Megadiverse country, part of the group of nations possessing the greatest number and diversity of animals and plants, almost 70% of global species diversity. The mexican government created in 1992 the National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), an interdepartamental commision to promote, coordinate, support and carry out activities aimed at increasing awareness of biodiversity and its conservation and sustainable use for the benefit of mexican society. Since 2012, CONABIO have the support of Wikimedia Mexico to work with the Wikimedia projects trough GLAM models. In 2014 the staff of the commission received workshops by the members of the mexican chapter, and due to the awareness and support in free licenses, the commission decided to index in its Naturalista project content of English and Spanish Wikipedia by default. Naturalista is a naturalist collaborative project for cataloging and identification of species.