marine biologist jacques cousteau once called the region "the world's aquarium." feliciano: we depend on the island, my wife, my son and i, my whole family. it's a cornucopia, this island. there's good and bad, just like in real life. but we live with it, so we have to protect it. reporter: the fishermen come him!!!! from the mainland, more kilometres away. sometimes they spend the night on the island. feliciano: because of commercial trawling, and, of course, our small boats, fishing is getting more difficult. we used to have two or three nets. now we bring along five. reporter: the island is of volcanic origin. it's been an official nature reserve for fifteen years. its biodiversity is known far beyond mexico's borders. tens of thousands of marine birds live here, on a single square kilometer. researchers from the german sustainable development organisation, giz, together with mexico's national park authority, now want to protect the waters around the island as well. jorge: there's a wealth of fish species from the entire region here. that's because currents fro