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Join us for the International Coastal Cleanup 2007 Puerto Peñasco, Sonora
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Photo: CEDO 2006 Fall Currents The 2006 Fall Currents edition is being printed and mailed to members this week (10/18). This edition contains a schedule of upcoming events and eco-tours, program updates, director's note and the state of CEDO. International Coastal Cleanup 2006 Puerto Peñasco, Sonora
In October 28th, CEDO worked in coordination with municipal trash management department (OOMISLIM), the Commission for Enhancement of the Tourism of the State of Sonora, Puerto Peñasco´s municipal government, and The Ocean Conservancy, to organize the VII International Coastal Cleanup in Puerto Peñasco. Together we mobilized more than 700 people including school children of all ages, ecological clubs, oyster farmers, government employees, families, and even the local marines to collect, classify and quantify debris from 12 different beach locations including Estero Morua, a local wetland that is important as a tourist attraction and has a relevant ecological value.
The event was a huge success. The volunteers broke all past records at Puerto Peñasco for the amount of trash collected and the total area covered: 5.4 tons of trash collected on 25.1 kilometers of beach. The most common contents of the trash bags were cigarettes and cigarette filters, plastic bags, plastic and glass bottles and bottle caps, all resulting from recreational activities on the beaches. The volunteers also found remnants of fishing gear, entangled animals, old car parts, biomedical waste products, and fireworks.
CEDO hope that participants came away from the experience with an important message about environmental protection. VI National Conservation Week Puerto Peñasco, Sonora
Since 2001, Mexican authorities encharged of the natural resources management (SEMARNAT trough CONANP) designated the National Conservation Week, with the objective to get people closer to the natural spaces and to promote among them the value of the Natural Protected Areas.
During this week, people from all over Mexico do different events to promote the environment preservation, so, Puerto Peñasco was not the exception and the Biosphere Reserve of the Pinacate and Great Altar Desert, Municipal Government and CEDO worked together to celebrate this important date.
On November 25th 2006, more than 100 people interested in the environment protection were part of the Conservation Parade, in which they participate by walk, using skates, bikes or cars beautifully decorated with ecological details.
At the end of the parade, in the city´s Malecon, the Conservation Party started, in which, students and ecological club members of the community, presented some displays, sketches, regional dances and even a fashion parade with clothes made by re-used materials!
We hope that the enthusiasm that they show, and their convictions about the environment preservation, could be transmitted to the rest of the people that live in this community. CEDO Currents Summer/Fall 2005 Published
The 2005 Summer/Fall edition of CEDO Currents has been published and mailed to our members. This edition contains information on upcoming eco-tours, including Isla San Jorge Sojourn in December and a Kayak Caper in October, notes from our field intern in Mexico, and a Director's Note from Peggy Turk Boyer. If you haven't received your copy please contact our communications assistant Zoe for help. CEDO's annual bilingual newsletter, A Journal of the Northern Gulf of California, its islands & surrounding Sonoran Desert, has been published and sent to our members. This edition contains articles
on dolphin rescue by CEDO staff near Puerto Peñasco, the history of the
vaquita, and a biography of the late John Hendrickson, a research pioneer
in the Northern Gulf of California and friend to CEDO (read more
about John Hendrickson here).
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