CEDO Participates in Global Efforts to  Clean-Up the Beaches
Each year the Ocean Conservancy asks CEDO to join in their global efforts to clean up our beaches.  CEDO will organize volunteers for beach clean up in Rocky Point Saturday morning, October 15.  Drive down from Tucson Friday the 14th in the van with other CEDO friends.  Stay at the Peñasco del Sol Hotel or at the CEDO Field Station and help make our beaches beautiful!  Click here to read more about this weekend and sign up today!  

Staff profile - Mario Onan Quintero Meneses
Mario accepted the position of MIA Biological Monitor as a part of the CEDO contract to write environmental impact statements for fishermen harvesting within Reserve waters of the Northern Gulf of California.  With a background in sustainable resource management and biology, he is well qualified to help gather the biological and social data needed for these documents as well as to assist fishers and community members to develop systems that will maintain habitat health and strengthen sustainable fishing practices.    Read more about Mario here. 

Flat-Tailed Horned Lizards Need Habitat Protection
The flat-tailed horned lizard, affectionately known as a "horny toad," has lived in the Northern Gulf of California region for thousands of years.  Documented in the fossil record as well as in images found on the pottery and petroglyphs of the indigenous people of Mexico and the US, the 14 known species of horned lizards are being crowded by human encroachment of their habitat.  US Fish & Wildlife has removed the flat-tailed lizard from its list of threatened species, causing controversy and law suits from several conservation groups.    Read more about horned lizards here. 

Challenge Grant Continues!!