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...
Life Between the Land and the Sea: A Look at What Makes the Intertidal Ecosystems of the Northern Gulf of California Unique
By: Jessica Potter As a child who loved the ocean but was reluctant to get into the water, I remember visiting Puerto Peñasco and being fascinated with all of the marine life I could see in the tide pools without even having to put my...
Community Center and School of the Sea reopened in Ejido Rodolfo Campodónico
By: CEDO Intercultural. On Saturday June 19, and to continue with the World Oceans Day celebrations, we reopened a public space at the Ejido Rodolfo Campodónico, in Caborca, Sonora. The space was restored, equipped, and prepared to function as a Community Center, Virtual Classroom and...
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...
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...
Whale Shark | Our Esperanza (Hope)
A whale shark being tagged by one of the MigraMar scientists. Credit: César Peñaherrera, MigraMar On September 2019, as part of the Galapagos Whale Shark Project, a group of scientists led by Jonathan Green and Alex Hearn (MigraMar) in the vicinity of Darwin Island, north...
Indigenous Peoples Part 1. | The first settlers of the region.
Tohono O'odham (Papago) woman wearing a basket tray headpiece, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1907. Human beings have lived in this region in the heart of the Sonoran Desert for more than 13,000 years and, according to Julian Hayden, there is evidence that they...
International Youth Day 2020.
CEDO Intercultural and Arizona Youth Climate Coalition announce their partnership on International Youth Day. In 1999, the General Assembly of the United Nations declared August 12 to be International Youth Day. This year, the theme of International Youth Day, is “Youth Engagement for Global Action”,...
40 years of CEDO Intercultural, a Celebration for the Love of the Sea
This story begins when, in the early 1980s, a young and enthusiastic biologist named Margaret Jean Turk, known to all as Peggy, founded the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO) in the municipality of Puerto Peñasco. At the beginning of that...
