Welcome!
to the Intercultural Center for
the Study of Deserts and Oceans.
Join us as we explore the creatures, habitats, and cultures of the Sonoran Desert and Sea of Cortez. Learn about the work of the wonderful CEDO team and discover how you can join this cause and support us.
CEDO Intercultural integrates people, knowledge and solutions; to promote resilient communities and ecosystems. The organization is committed to improvement based on the continuous strengthening of communities and the natural environment, through: i) knowledge for decision-making; ii) the dissemination and application of tools for promoting community participation and consensus; iii) education; iv) conservation, sustainable use and dissemination of the regional biocultural heritage; v) adaptation to climate change and vi) the design and promotion of ecosystem-based harvesting and management schemes.
Taking up the accumulated experience of 40 years of uninterrupted work, at CEDO Intercultural we organize our work aligned with the National Development Plan of Mexico 2019-2024, the National Strategy on Biodiversity of Mexico, the 2030 Agenda, and the Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development and the Post 2020 Global Framework for Biodiversity.
Aligned to the National Development Plan 2019-2024, which proposes a model of development that is respectful of the inhabitants and of the habitat, equitable, aimed at correcting and not exacerbating inequalities, defender of cultural diversity and the natural environment; Leave No One Behind: For the Good of All, Poor People First, Caring for the Environment and an Inclusive Economy; and the Initiative for Sustainability in the Northern Gulf of California, which seeks to create environmentally sustainable and resilient coastal communities by recovering the social fabric in an environment of reactivation of fishing activities and others carried out with a perspective of sustainability.
We will strengthen communities in the Northern Gulf of California with the tools and practices that best enable them to identify problems and self-manage appropriate solutions for the common good.
We will consolidate voluntary citizen networks, trained and certified to monitor biodiversity, and to collaborate in restoring landscapes and protect priority species in the North and Upper Gulf of California.
We will promote and advise the regional and national fisheries sector, so that a third of the annual regional productions of commercial fisheries are produced and marketed following the fisheries improvement project and social responsibility and fair-trade certification models.
We will promote and implement updated environmental education and School of the Sea curricula, professional and specialized courses, and competency certifications with children, youth, producers, local professionals, and tourists, and share lessons learned to scale the impact.
We will expand CEDO’s vision and mission through information and capacity building to disseminate regional biocultural knowledge, generate information through citizen science, and provide environmentally and culturally responsible hands-on experiences in nature.
Mermaid song: Women who inspire our relationship with the ocean from a gender dimension perspective. Read the full post in our BLOG.
The COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity to reinvent our relationship with nature and put it at the center of our decision-making. Read the full post in our BLOG.
In 1980 the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans, CEDO, opened its doors for the first time in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, thus initiating a story where a vision for the Northern Gulf of California emerges. See the video of our 40 years of history in our official accounts Facebook or Youtube
Dear CEDO friends. In this time of relative separation from our extended CEDO family, we want to take the opportunity to recount our last BIG celebration in Puerto Peñasco, commemorating 40 years of The Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans. Read the full post on our BLOG.
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