Cedo Intercultural - Private Land Conservation

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Private Land Conservation

Legal tools are being developed, here in México, to protect essential ecosystems over the long term. CEDO seeks to use these tools to regulate land use around sensitive wetlands through conservation easements. Landowners agree to long term conservation of their land, in exchange for economic incentives and outside support of their sustainable activities.

Objectives:

- Protect private lands adjacent to wetlands in the Northern Gulf of California, using voluntary legal tools.
- Promote the sustainable use wetland ecosystems with landowners, though economic incentives.
- Support and maintain wetland ecologic and economic functions.

If you own land near an estuary, and you’d like to develop sustainable activities or conserve your land contact us .

Our priority zones are currently: Bahía San Jorge, Estero Morúa y Bahía Adair.

TIDE BITS: Blue Crab Trap Fishery

Crab traps are baited wire cages, which rest on the seafloor. A buoy, often an empty soda bottle, tethered to the trap helps the fishermen find it. The trap’s funneled sides make it easy for crabs to enter but hard for them to leave. During the peak season crab fishermen, like lobstermen, run their lines of traps inshore, on the coasts and estuaries near Peñasco. At Bahia San Jorge, 50 kilometers south of Peñasco, a fisheries cooperative determines the capture rate for its crab fishery. In this community, pick up trucks ferry fishermen, boats and traps back and forth along 12 kilometers of beach. At the end of the harvest they are weighted down with packed crates of crab. The crabs are later shipped and canned elsewhere, bringing little return to the community.