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...
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...
We live on a planet that is warming
By: Dra. Nélida Barajas Acosta, CEDO Intercultural Executive Director Puerto Peñasco woke up to rains and strong winds, and hurricane Nora is not even here yet. This is in addition to the monsoon season that brought the rain from the Gulf of California to the...
Girls for the Change: Summer Volunteer Program at CEDO
By: Andrea Hurtado, Gala Solís, Maritza Roberts, Emilia Valdenebro Volunteer work consists of doing a service to the community, it is largely part of the development of a professional person and a good human being committed to the environment that surrounds him or her and...
We are the offspring of the summer
By: Rafael Barceló Durazo | Consul of Mexico in Tucson, Arizona We are the sons and daughters of a fiery but beautiful summer, now faced with climate change - Why do you live here? This is what a stranger who came to visit me years...
The rescue of a Whale
By: Abelardo Castillo | Associate Specialist in Social Geography and Wildlife Management. CEDO Intercultural On the morning of July 7, 2021, a fin whale Balaenoptera physalus was found stranded alive at El Mirador beach in Puerto Peñasco. The beached whale was reported to the local...
Sowing the Promise of Blue Carbon on the Watery Edge of a Blue Desert
By: Alberto Mellado, Erica Barnett, Laura Monti and Gary Paul Nabhan On a breezy winter day along the Sonoran coast of the Sea of Cortes in Mexico, six of us went wading into fragmented stands of mangroves in backwater lagoons. Our binational, multicultural team had...
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...
