Dzukani! Tikuyankhula Nangumi!

Wolemba Angel Braestrup, Wapampando wa Board of Advisors of The Ocean Foundation

June 1 linali Tsiku la Whale. Tsiku lolemekeza zolengedwa zokongolazi zomwe zimayendayenda m'nyanja zonse zapadziko lapansi - zomwe zili ndi tsiku lawo pa June 8.

Ambiri a inu mumadziŵa kuti anamgumi amagwira ntchito yofunika kwambiri m’nyanja—ali mbali yaikulu ya ukonde wocholoŵana umene umapanga zinthu zochirikiza zamoyo za dziko lapansili. M'dziko lokhala ndi magwero osiyanasiyana a mapuloteni omwe amapezeka kwa anthu ambiri, kusaka kosalekeza kwa nyama zam'madzi kumawoneka, monga momwe ana anga anganene, kotero zaka zapitazo. The “Save the Whales” slogan inalamulira zaka zanga zaunyamata ndipo kampeni yayitali idapambana. Bungwe la International Whaling Commission linaletsa kupha anamgumi amalonda mu 1982—chipambano chokondweretsedwa ndi zikwi zambiri padziko lonse. Ndiwo okhawo amene amadalira anamgumi—osaka nyama—ndi amene anatetezeredwa ndipo akali choncho lerolino—malinga ngati nyama ndi zinthu zina sizikutumizidwa kunja kapena kugulitsidwa. Monga njira zabwino zambiri zopititsira patsogolo chitetezo, zatenga khama limodzi la asayansi odzipereka, omenyera ufulu wa anthu, ndi ena okonda anamgumi kuti athane ndi zoyesayesa zokweza kuimitsidwa pamsonkhano wa IWC chaka chilichonse.

Chifukwa chake, sizodabwitsa kuti chilengezo cha Iceland kuti iyambiranso nsonga zamalonda chaka chino chinakwaniritsidwa. zionetsero. Chiwonetsero choterechi chinakumana ndi pulezidenti wa Iceland ku Portland, Maine, sabata yatha ndikuyembekeza kuti Iceland idzalingaliranso chisankho chake.

Monga Wapampando wa Board of Advisors of The Ocean Foundation, ndakhala ndi mwayi wokumana ndi asayansi okonda kwambiri anangumi ndi ena ochita kampeni padziko lonse lapansi. Nthaŵi zina ndimatuluka pamadzi kuti ndiwawone, monga zikwi za anthu ena omwe amawonera modabwa.

Asayansi apanyanja akamasonkhana kuti akambirane za nyama, zimatengera mphindi imodzi kuti adziwe malo awo. Kupatula apo, samalankhula za gombe la California, amalankhula za Eastern Pacific ndi California Bight, dera lolemera la nyanja pakati pa Point Conception ndi San Diego. Ndipo akatswiri a sayansi ya anamgumi amayang’ana kwambiri za nazale ndi malo odyetserako ziweto zomwe zimathandiza mitundu yosamuka yomwe imatsatira nyengo ndi nyengo.

Oyendetsa mawotchi a whale nawonso amachita. Zokwera zanyengo zomwe zimathandiza kuti ulendo ukhale wopambana ndi mkate wawo ndi batala. Ku Glacier Bay, maikolofoni amatsitsidwa m'madzi kuti amvetsere nsonga za anamgumi. Mahumpbacks samayimba pamenepo (amasiya izi m'nyengo yozizira ku Hawaii) koma amaimba mosalekeza. Kuyenda m'bwato lopanda phokoso kumvetsera ku anamgumi akudya pansi panu ndizochitika zamatsenga ndipo pamene akusweka, kuthamanga kwamadzi ndi kuphulika kotsatira kumamveka kuchokera kumapiri a miyala.

Makutu, mabeluga, manyunga, ndi imvi—Ndadalitsidwa kuti ndinaziona zonse. Mwayi wowapeza munyengo yoyenera uli wochuluka. Mutha kuona anamgumi abuluu ndi ana awo akusangalala ndi mtendere wa Loreto National Marine Park ku Baja California, Mexico. Kapena onani anamgumi osowa kwambiri (omwe amadziwika kuti ndi anamgumi oyenerera kupha) a kumadzulo kwa gombe la Atlantic Coast—akuvutikira kukhala ndi moyo monga zamoyo. Nangumi 50 wa imvi, monga timakonda kunena.

Inde, ulendo uliwonse wokaonerera anamgumi ungakhale tsiku labwino chabe pamadzi—palibe zamoyo zimene zimadumpha m’nyanja, palibe chinsomba chouluka pamene chikudumphira, mafunde osatha ndi mthunzi wa apo ndi apo umene umachititsa aliyense kuthamangirako. mbali ya ngalawa pachabe.

Izi, zikunenedwa, sizowona za ma orcas a Strait of San Juan de Fuca, kapena ma fjords a Prince William Sound, kapena malo otuwa ndi obiriwira a Glacier Bay kapena ngakhale kumpoto chakumadzulo kwa Atlantic osakhudzidwa. Ndamva kuti panthaŵi yoyenera ya chaka, m’malo ambiri padziko lonse, nyanga za orcas zimakhala zambiri, zizindikiro zake zochititsa chidwi ndi zipsepse zonyezimira zimaonekera kutali ndi mayadi mazanamazana—zidutswa zapakhomo, alendo odzacheza akudutsa, kuyenda panyanja. magulu a nkhandwe aamuna osakwatiwa akudutsa m'masukulu a nsomba ndi akambuku.

Anangumi awiri omwe amadya nyama "zosakhalitsa" anajambula kumwera kwa Unimak Island, kum'mawa kwa Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Chithunzi ndi Robert Pittman, NOAA.

Koma kwa ine, si wakuda ndi woyera. Sindingakuuzeni kangati komwe ndamva kuti, "Akhala pano mwezi wonse! Kapena zothandiza nthawi zonse, "Ukadakhala pano dzulo." Ndikuganiza kuti ndikapita kumalo osungirako zinthu zakale, msuweni wake wa Shamu akanakhala ndi tsiku la thanzi labwino.

Komabe, ndimakhulupirira ma orcas. Ayenera kukhala kunjako ngati anthu ambiri adawawona, sichoncho? Ndipo mofanana ndi anamgumi onse—anamgumi, ma dolphin, ndi porpoise—sitifunika kuwaona kuti akhulupirire kuti n’ngofunika kwambiri kunyanja yathanzi monga masukulu a menhaden, matanthwe odzaza ndi madzi, ndi gombe la mangrove— ndipo, ndithudi, anthu onse omwe amagwira ntchito mwakhama kuti akhale ndi thanzi labwino la m'nyanja.

Ndikukhulupirira kuti munali ndi Tsiku Losangalala la Nangumi, Orcas (kulikonse komwe muli) komanso zopatsa thanzi kwa abale anu.