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...
