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...
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...
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...
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...
The El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve: 28 years of history and counting
By: Biol. Carlos Castillo Sánchez. Senior Conservation Specialist, Wildlands Network Mexico Program It was at the beginning of the 80's when a group of researchers headed by Dr. Ezequiel Ezcurra from the UNAM Institute of Ecology visited the Sierra del Pinacate region. In 1981, they...
The Fusion of Ingredients: Sonora, a State with great gastronomic wealth
By: Neftalí Ponce Hernández, Chef and owner of A la Burguer con el Chef, Executive Chef at Vidanta Puerto Peñasco. Today we address a small portion of the wide and rich gastronomy of a Municipality such as Puerto Peñasco, which shelters us and gives us...
In Remembrance of Jeanette E. Clifton. Who Made Every Day a Gift
By: Peggy J. Turk Boyer. For those who had the good fortune to know Jeanette Clifton, her warm heart, wonderful smile, and gracious way will endure in our hearts. Jeanette lived life fully, following her creed that “Every Day is a Gift”. She was born...
