Explorers: First Expeditions in the Gulf of California and the Sonoran Desert—The Pimería Alta
By: Abelardo Castillo Rosas. CEDO Intercultural The main impulse of the first Spanish explorers in what is currently Northwestern Mexico and Southwestern United States was the possibility of discovering such riches as those that had been found in the great civilizations including the Aztec, the...
Blue Carbon
By: Alejandro Callejas Linares. Associate Specialist. CEDO Intercultural Climate change is possibly the greatest challenge facing humanity today. If we do not reduce or sequester the volume of greenhouse gases that we emit into the atmosphere, changes in weather and climate will have cascading effects...
Inseparable: Water, wetlands, and life
By: Laura Martínez, Executive Director, Pro Esteros Many of us have heard that wetlands are among the most economically valuable and most biodiverse ecosystems in the world. But surely, we’ve also heard that they are disappearing three times faster than forests, with dire consequences for...
Indigenous Peoples Part II. Historical tribes from the heart of the Sonoran Desert
Compilador: Guillermo Munro Historically, the Hia C’ed O’odham or Areneños had a smaller population, but a larger territory with a greater lack of resources and a larger amount of arid lands. They lived to the west of what is now known as the Organ Pipe...
School of the Sea
By: Paloma A. Valdivia-Jiménez, CEDO Education, Communication, and Outreach Manager In the framework of celebrations for Education Day (January 24) and Environmental Education Day (January 26) in Mexico, we are launching one of the most innovative educational projects of the Intercultural Center for the Study...
Peggy J. Turk Boyer Collection
By: CEDO Intercultural. The "Peggy J. Turk Boyer Collection" is a recognition of the research and work carried out by the founder of the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans who, in collaboration with researchers, naturalists, scientists, and academics, contributed information for...
Consumption as a Tool for Sustainability
By: Nélida Barajas Acosta, Executive Director, CEDO Intercultural Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Associate Researcher, CEDO Intercultural Sarah Mesnick, NOAA Researcher Miguel Ángel Cisneros Mata, INAPESCA Researcher. The northern Gulf of California, recognized for its biological and cultural diversity, was declared a World Heritage Site[1]. Petroglyphs from...
Meet the giants of the Sea of Cortez: Whale watching in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora
By: M.B. Angeles Sánchez Cruz, Conservation, Biodiversity and Citizen Science Manager M.S Paloma A. Valdivia Jiménez, Education, Communications and Outreach Manager CEDO Intercultural. The winter season has arrived and with it come the species that migrate to warmer places. Among these, whales are undoubtedly one...
A Few Thoughts on the Importance of Fishing and Aquaculture in Sonora
By: Dr. Miguel Ángel Cisneros Mata | Researcher at National Institute of Fishing and Aquaculture Three important elements converged in 2020: 1) The 25th anniversary of the publication of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (FAO 1995). 2) The mandate to achieve the key...
In Memoriam: Richard Felger
By: Sula Vanderplank | Director of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Conservation Program, Pronatura Noroeste Dr. Richard Stephen Felger was born in 1934 and grew up in Los Angeles where he loved to visit the tide pools… he once told me that he started out as a...
