Wayar hannu-Tensaw Delta Mai Arziki a cikin Rarraba halittu

Mun yi farin ciki da tabbatar da ban mamaki bambancin halittu da mahimmancin Mobile Tensaw Delta. Bill Finch na Gidauniyar Ocean Foundation ne suka jagoranci wannan ƙoƙarin da ƙungiyoyin haɗin gwiwarmu da suka haɗa da EO Wilson Foundation, Curtis & Edith Munson Foundation, National Parks and Conservation Association, da Gidauniyar Walton Family Foundation.

National Park Service
Ma'aikatar Cikin Gida ta Amurka
Kula da Albarkatun Halitta da Kimiyya

Ranar saki: Disamba 16, 2016

Tuntuɓi: Jeffrey Olson, [email kariya] 202-208-6843

WASHINGTON – Mafi girman yankin Kogin Wayar hannu-Tensaw shine aƙalla kadada 200,000 na ɗimbin ɗimbin halittu na halitta wanda ke da sarƙaƙƙiya na al'ada kuma yana da mahimmancin ƙimar tattalin arziƙin ƙasa. Har ila yau, batu ne na sabon rahoton "yanayin ilimin kimiyya" wanda ƙungiyar masana kimiyya da masana masu sha'awar makomar yankin a kudu maso yammacin Alabama suka rubuta.

Babban mai ba da goyon baya shi ne wanda ya lashe kyautar Pulitzer Dr. Edward O. Wilson, masanin kimiyar Jami'ar Harvard kuma ɗan asalin Alabaman. "Babban yankin kogin Tensaw wata taska ce ta kasa da ta fara ba da sirrinta," in ji Wilson. "Shin akwai wani wuri a Amurka inda mazauna da baƙi za su iya zama a cikin birni na zamani kuma duk da haka tafiya zuwa wani yanki na gaske a cikin sa'a guda?"

A cewar editocin rahoton, haɓakar tectonic ya haifar da tsaunin da ke gefen gabas na Mobile Bay a Montrose, Alabama, da kuma tudu na Red Hills da ke da nisa zuwa arewa waɗanda ke ba da wuraren zama na musamman ga ɗimbin ciyayi da dabbobi. 

"Mafi yawan nau'in itacen oak, na mussels, na crayfish, na lizards da kunkuru ana samun su a wannan yanki fiye da kowane yanki mai kama da Arewacin Amirka," in ji Dokta Greg Waselkov na Jami'ar Kudancin Alabama, daya daga cikin masu gyara binciken. "Kuma hakan na iya kasancewa gaskiya ga iyalai da yawa na kwari waɗanda yanzu kawai muke fara gano nau'ikan halittu a cikin wannan babban dakin gwaje-gwaje na halitta."

Kuma, ya tambayi editan binciken C. Fred Andrus na Jami'ar Alabama, "Wanene a cikinmu ya san cewa mafi yawan vertebrates a cikin wannan yanki su ne inconspicuous, jin kunya salamanders cewa ba da gudummawa mai girma ga ingancin ruwa da carbon management a cikin dausayi? Delta Mobile-Tensaw yana cike da abubuwan ban mamaki, kamar yadda masanin kimiyyar ya shafi baƙo na yau da kullun da ke jin daɗin kamun kifi, kallon tsuntsaye, ko kuma kawai yana kwale kwale-kwale.

Rahoton ya samo asali ne daga haɗin gwiwa tsakanin Sashen Albarkatun Halittu na Sabis na National Park Service da Ofishin Yanki na Kudu maso Gabas, Jami'ar Kudancin Alabama, da Jami'ar Alabama da Sashin Haɗin gwiwar Muhalli na Gulf Coast. 

Jihar Alabama da National Park Service suna da ƙaƙƙarfan tarihin haɗin gwiwa ta hanyar wuraren shakatawa, alamun ƙasa, wuraren tarihi na ƙasa, da shirye-shiryen taimakon al'umma. Tsakanin 1960 zuwa 1994, an tsara Alamomin Tarihi na Ƙasa guda shida a yankin, ciki har da Fort Morgan, Gidan Wuta na Gidan Wuta da Kasuwar Kudancin, USS Alabama, USS Drum, Cocin Presbyterian na Gwamnati, da kuma wurin binciken kayan tarihi na Bottle Creek. 

A cikin 1974 an ayyana Kogin Mobile-Tensaw Bottomlands a matsayin Alamar Halitta ta Kasa. Yayin da mazauna yankin suka dade suna jin daɗin daji da farauta da kamun kifi na ƙasan Mobile-Tensaw Delta, wannan rahoto ya fitar da gamsassun bayanai cewa manyan tsarin halitta, al'adu, da tattalin arziƙin da ke kewaye da ambaliyar ruwan delta suna da alaƙa da juna tare da kewayen tuddai. mafi girman yanayin yanayin yanayin babban yankin Kogin Tensaw na kadada miliyan da yawa.

Elaine F. Leslie, shugabar Hukumar Kula da Albarkatun Halitta ta Kasa da Sashen Albarkatun Halittar Kimiya ta ce "Wannan yanki na Arewacin Amirka yana ɗaya daga cikin mafi arziƙi dangane da ɗimbin halittu masu rai." "Kuma tarihin al'adunsa da al'adunsa suna da daraja iri ɗaya."  

Har yanzu akwai abubuwa da yawa da za a koya game da Delta. Ta yaya kaddarorin zahiri na fannin ilmin kasa da ilimin ruwa na yankin ke yin tasiri iri-iri da tsarin kwayoyin halitta, kuma ta yaya suke tare suke tsara yanayin yanayin dangantakar dan Adam da filaye, ruwa, flora, da fauna na Delta?

Haɗin gwaninta na sirri, tarihin halitta da al'adu, da kimiyya suna taimaka mana fahimtar cewa haɓakar yanayin muhalli da al'adu suna ɗaure tare da Mobile-Tensaw Delta. Masu ba da gudummawar wannan rahoton sun binciki yadda aka tsara haɗin gwiwar wannan fili kuma suna nuna wasu sakamako idan aikin haɗin gwiwarmu ya kasa kiyaye yankin Delta da muka gada.
Ana samun rahoton a https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2230281.

Game da Kula da Albarkatun Halitta da Kimiyya (NRSS). Cibiyar NRSS tana ba da tallafin kimiyya, fasaha, da gudanarwa ga wuraren shakatawa na ƙasa don sarrafa albarkatun ƙasa. NRSS tana haɓakawa, amfani, da rarraba kayan aikin kimiyyar halitta da zamantakewa don taimakawa Hukumar Kula da Kula da Lafiyar Jama'a (NPS) ta cika ainihin manufarta: kare albarkatun wurin shakatawa da dabi'u. Ƙara koyo a www.nature.nps.gov, www.facebook.com, www.twitter.com/NatureNPS, ko www.instagram.com/NatureNPS.
Game da National Park Service. Fiye da ma'aikatan sabis na gandun daji 20,000 suna kula da wuraren shakatawa na ƙasa 413 na Amurka kuma suna aiki tare da al'ummomi a duk faɗin ƙasar don taimakawa adana tarihin gida da ƙirƙirar damar nishaɗi na kusa-da-gida. Ziyarce mu a www.nps.gov, akan Facebook www.facebook.com/nationalparkservice, Twitter www.twitter.com/natlparkservice, da YouTube www.youtube.com/nationalparkservice.