Pinacate & Gran
Desierto de Altar
Estuary
Excursion
Kayak
Caper
Tidepool
Exploration
San Jorge Island
Adventure Tour
Oyster
Experience
Dunes
Destination
Natural History
Talks
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.
In an effort to promote a culture of open science, in October 2014, the Gulf of California Marine Program created the platform called dataMares. Continue reading the full dataMares article on our. BLOG.
The Gulf of California in Mexico is a provider of food and employment for approximately 50,000 people who operate around 25,000 small vessels. Read the full post in our BLOG.
Many of us think of and treat plants as inanimate objects. But a plant grows, reacts to inner and outer stimuli, reproduces, responds to disease and injury, communicates with other plants. Read the full post in our BLOG.
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