Regional Artisanal Fishing and Aquaculture Festival, Sonora 2022
Regional Artisanal Fishing and Aquaculture Festival, Sonora 2022 The Artisanal Fishing and Aquaculture Festival Sonora 2022 (FRPAAS 2022), aimed to focus attention and recognize the work of fishers and aquaculturists in Sonora and the northern Gulf of California for their contribution to the supply of...
Blue Carbon Forum Mexico 2021
By: CEDO Intercultural | Cover photo: costasalvaje.org Nélida Barajas, CEDO Executive Director | Photo: Yves Rocher Foundation Nélida Barajas, Executive Director of the Intercultural Center of Desert and Ocean Studies (CEDO) took part in the second edition of the Mexico 2021 Blue Carbon Forum, held...
Monitoring of bycatch in the green crab fishery in the Puerto Peñasco to Puerto Lobos Biological Corridor, Sonora, Mexico Case study on quantifying food loss and waste
By: CEDO Intercultural. . ORGANIZATION CEDO 41 years logo The Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO) combines vision, leadership, knowledge and experience with a view to fostering dynamic communities and resilient ecosystems. The organization has been working in the northern Gulf...
CEDO was present at the World Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
By: Nélida Barajas Acosta, Executive Director, CEDO Intercultural. . IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020 logo In 2021, the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans became a member organization of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. In the regional context, we...
We live on a planet that is warming
By: Dra. Nélida Barajas Acosta, CEDO Intercultural Executive Director Puerto Peñasco woke up to rains and strong winds, and hurricane Nora is not even here yet. This is in addition to the monsoon season that brought the rain from the Gulf of California to the...
Girls for the Change: Summer Volunteer Program at CEDO
By: Andrea Hurtado, Gala Solís, Maritza Roberts, Emilia Valdenebro Volunteer work consists of doing a service to the community, it is largely part of the development of a professional person and a good human being committed to the environment that surrounds him or her and...
Sowing the Promise of Blue Carbon on the Watery Edge of a Blue Desert
By: Alberto Mellado, Erica Barnett, Laura Monti and Gary Paul Nabhan On a breezy winter day along the Sonoran coast of the Sea of Cortes in Mexico, six of us went wading into fragmented stands of mangroves in backwater lagoons. Our binational, multicultural team had...
Puerto Peñasco Celebrates World Oceans Day
By: CEDO Intercultural. As part of the celebration of World Oceans Day, the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO) in collaboration with Greater Good Charities, Free the Ocean, the Puerto Peñasco City Council through the office of Ecology and Zofemat, as...
dataMares: A Sea of Data on Mexico’s Natural Capital
By: Catalina López-Sagástegui. General Manager, dataMares. In recent years, access to information has become one of the priority issues among academics, civil society organizations, and governments. All the decisions we make in our daily lives are based on information that is available to us. From...
In Remembrance of Carl N. Hodges at Puerto Peñasco, Sonora
By: Peggy J. Turk Boyer, Founder/Executive Director Emeritus, CEDO Intercultural This past April 2, 2021, news broke of the inauguration of a full-scale desalinization plant at Puerto Peñasco that would augment a diminishing water supply in this extremely dry desert region[1]. The following day, April...
