Fishing – A Fascinating Profession
By: M.S. René Loaiza, Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture Manager, CEDO Fishing represents the livelihood and income for approximately 12 million people around the world. Around 90% of these people fish in small boats. The Gulf of California in Mexico is a provider of food and...
The Wall
By: Ana Valerie Mandri Rohen, Founder and CEO of Zamia Media Working in an environmental organization is not easy. In front of you, there's always a monumental-sized wall, with alarming figures, unattainable goals, a countdown that shows little time left, all wrapped by a membrane...
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...
Letter from a CEDO Friend
By: Mark Kaib. Retired USFWS Wildfire Ecologist Dear Friends, I had a special experience at CEDO in Puerto Peñasco recently. Having traveled since childhood to these wonderful tide pools and beaches, I was always a supporter of CEDO since its beginning. My interest was to...
Native fishes of the Rio Sonoyta
By: Doug Duncan; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service It takes active partnerships to achieve conservation that is meaningful and lasting. When I started my conservation career more than 30 years ago, I was like most biologists then, and just wanted to work with animals and...
Where the Desert Meets the Sea—A Place of Extremes (Part One)
By: Efraín Wong, Leonor López H., Ángeles Sánchez C., René Loaiza V. Editor: Socorro González B. The northern Gulf of California is an eco-region limited to the south by the Tiburon and Ángel de la Guarda islands, and to the north by the Colorado River...
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 Ríos, 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...
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...
