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Tata ki te 1,000km mai i te pito raki o Yucatan Peninsula o Mexico me nga takutai Karipiana o Belize, Guatemala me Honduras, ko te Mesoamerican Reef System (MAR) te punaha toka nui rawa atu i Amerika me te tuarua o te ao i muri i te Great Barrier Reef. Ko te MAR te waahi matua mo te whakamarumaru i te kanorau koiora, tae atu ki nga honu moana, neke atu i te 60 momo kaoa me te neke atu i te 500 momo ika kei te tata te ngaro.

I runga i te hiranga ohaoha me te kanorau koiora, he mea nui kia mohio nga kaihanga whakatau ki te uara o nga ratonga rauwiringa kaiao e whakaratohia ana e te MAR. I runga i tenei whakaaro, ko Te Ocean Foundation (TOF) kei te arahi i te uara ohaoha mo te MAR. Ko te whainga o te rangahau ko te mohio ki te uaratanga o te MAR me te hiranga o tana tiaki kia pai ake ai te mohio ki nga kaihanga whakatau. Ko te rangahau kei te putea e te Interamerican Development Bank (IADB) i te mahi tahi me Metroeconomica me te World Resources Institute (WRI).

I whakahaerehia nga awheawhe mariko mo nga ra e wha (Oketopa 6 me 7, Mexico me Guatemala, Oketopa 13 me 15 Honduras me Belize, ia). I whakahuihui ia awheawhe i nga tangata whai paanga mai i nga wahanga rereke me nga whakahaere. Ko etahi o nga whainga o te awheawhe ko: te whakaatu i te hiranga o te aromatawai mo te whakatau kaupapa; whakaatu i te tikanga o te whakamahi me te kore whakamahi uara; ka whiwhi urupare mo te kaupapa.

He mea nui te whai waahi o nga tari kawanatanga, whare wananga me nga NGO o enei whenua mo te kohinga raraunga e tika ana mo te whakamahi i nga tikanga o te kaupapa.

Mo nga NGO e toru e whakahaere ana i te kaupapa, e hiahia ana matou ki te mihi ki te tautoko nui me te whai waahi ki nga awheawhe, me te tautoko nui a MARFund me te Healthy Reefs Initiative.

I whai waahi nga mangai o nga whakahaere e whai ake nei ki nga awheawhe:

Mexico: SEMARNAT, CONANP, CONABIO, INEGI, INAPESCA, Kawanatanga o te Kawanatanga o Quintana Roo, Costa Salvaje; Coral Reef Alliance, ELAW, COBI.

Guatemala: MARN, INE, INGUAT, DIPESCA, KfW, Reefs Healthy, MAR Fund, WWF, Wetlands International, USAID, ICIAAD-Ser Océano, FUNDAECO, APROSARTUN, UICN Guatemala, IPNUSAC, PixanJa.

Honduras: Dirección General de la Marina Mercante, MiAmbiente, Instituto Nacional de Conservacion y Desarrollo Forestla/ICF, FAO-Honduras, Cuerpos de Conservación Omoa -CCO; Bay Islands Conservation Association, capitulo Roatan, UNAH-CURLA, Coral Reef Alliance, Roatan Marine Park, Zona Libre Turistica Islas de la Bahia (ZOLITUR), Fundación Cayos Cochinos, Parque Nacional Bahia de Loreto.

Belize: Belize Fisheries Department, Protected Areas Conservation Trust, Belize Tourism Board, National Biodiversity Office-MFFESD, Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Belize Environmental Research Institute, Toledo Institute for Development and Environment, The Summit Foundation, Hol Chan Marine Reserve, nga kongakonga o tumanako, Belize Audubon Society, Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association, The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre