Learning About Western Osprey Nests in a Fishing Community of the Sonoran Coast
Learning About Western Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Nests in a Fishing Community of the Sonoran Coast By: Lucila Armenta Méndez and Manuel Muñoz Espinoza The western osprey (Pandion haliaetus) is a permanent resident bird of prey along the coast of Sonora. Measuring close to 23 in...
CEDO Signs Collaboration Agreements with Tucson Mexico Sister Cities Association and the Puerto Peñasco City Council
By: CEDO Intercultural | Cover photo: CEDO Archive On October 21st, Casa Sosa-Carrillo-Frémont in Tucson was the stage for the “Reconnect with CEDO” Event where the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO) signed two important agreements that define collaborative work on...
The 2021 International Coastal Cleanup is a success in Puerto Peñasco
By: CEDO Intercultural | Cover photo: CEDO Archive International Coastal Cleanup 2021 | Photo: CEDO Archive International Coastal Cleanup 2021 | Photo: CEDO Archive More than 600 people of Puerto Peñasco, including 57 governmental and educational institutions, civil society organizations, private companies, fishers, families, and...
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...
CEDO’s School of the Sea starts certifying the first cohort of fishermen and fisherwomen!
By: Paloma A. Valdivia Jiménez, Education and Liaison Manager, CEDO | Cover photo: CEDO Archive CONOCER Network logo In May 2021, the Intercultural Center for the Study of Desert and Oceans (CEDO) was accredited as a Competency Certification and Evaluation Entity (ECE) before the Mexican National Council for Standardization and...
A Conversation About a Dwarf Sperm Whale
By: Abelardo Castillo Rosas, Associate Specialist in Human Geography and Wildlife, CEDO | Cover photo: Heather and Andrew Hodgson Stranded dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima) | Photo: Abelardo Castillo On September 17 at noon, at the Puerto Peñasco dock, a group of people found a...
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...
Scientific Diving — A Tool to Generate Knowledge
By: Dr. Norma Angélica Corado Nava, Content Department in the General Directorate for the Dissemination of Science, UNAM. . Introduction Pool training, August 2017 Diving is an underwater activity that can be done for recreational, research or sporting purposes. Diving is divided into two main...
A Little History and Challenges of Shark Fishing on the Mexican Pacific Coast
By: Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki, Principal Researcher, Department of Biological Oceanography, CICESE. Since the mid-1970s, Mexico has been a world leading shark catcher. But the history of this cartilaginous fish fishery begins almost 90 years before that date, when the first shark fins were exported to China...
