Iyo Georgia Strait Alliance: Shamwari yeGungwa

NaBen Scheelk, Chirongwa Associate, The Ocean Foundation

Kunyarara. Kunyarara kwakachena, kusina kusvibiswa, kunovhara nzeve kunoita kuti munhu anzwe sokunge uri muutsi. Ndiwo fungidziro yangu yekusingaperi yekona diki yeBritish Columbia's Strait of Georgia yakanzi "Desolation Sound."

Pakati penyeredzi dzegungwa reviolet uye tangerine, zvisimbiso zvezvikepe zvine hunyanzvi zvinokuona nemeso matema achipinda akadzika uye akasviba semafjords ekare anotevedza mhenderekedzo yegungwa, uye pasina zvipingamupinyi, ruzha rwemotokari, uye zvinenge zvese zviratidzo. budiriro, ndakazviwana ndageza murunyararo—uye mvura zhinji—yerenje guru regungwa iri mukati mekushanya kuchangobva kupfuura. Chiitiko ichi chakandiisa mukambani yepedyo yeimwe yeThe Ocean Foundation's Shamwari dzeMari: Shamwari dzeGeorgia Strait Alliance.

Kweanopfuura makumi maviri emakore, iyo Georgia Strait Alliance (GSA), sangano rakavakirwa paVancouver Island, rave riri “boka revagari vemo bedzi rakanangidzira ngwariro pakuchengetedza mhoteredzo yegungwa mukati uye kumativi ose eStrait of Georgia yose—nzvimbo inogara vanhu vakawanda vokuBritish Columbia, kushanda, uye kutamba.” Mukurarama kwavo kwese, GSA yakarwira zvisingaite kuchengetedza paradhiso iyi yakasarudzika yegungwa, kuwana kumiswa kwekuitwa kwesalmon aquaculture, ichida kuvandudzwa kwemaindasitiri maitiro, kutsigira zviri nani kucheneswa kwetsvina, kusimudzira kugadzwa kweNzvimbo itsva dzeNational Marine Conservation, uye kutungamira mubairo- kuhwina mushandirapamwe pa "Green Boating."

Kushanda "kuwedzera kunzwisisa kwevanhu uye kuhwina shanduko yehurongwa hweveruzhinji pazvinhu zvakaita sekusvibiswa kwetsvina uye kusvibiswa kwetsvina, njodzi yekuteuka kwemafuta, kurasikirwa kwenzvimbo yakaoma yekugara uye nzizi dzesaumoni, kurima kwesaumoni uye kudiwa kwekuchengetedzwa kwenzvimbo yekugara mugungwa," GSA inonyanya-. yakatariswa kugadziridzwa pamisangano mikuru maererano neStrait, uye mutsigiri uye piyona wezvidzidzo zvesainzi, mishandirapamwe yekukurudzira, zviitiko zveutariri, uye zviito zvemutemo. Kubva pakuchengetedza orca whale, kuchengetedza kutendeseka kweiyi sango uye inobereka ecosystem, GSA iri kutungamira kuyedza kuona iyi yakakosha sosi inochengeterwa nharaunda dzevanhu nemhuka dzesango, dzinogara murenje iri rakakura, kuzvizvarwa zvinotevera.

Kubva 2004, The Ocean Foundation yakapa rutsigiro rwemari kuThe Georgia Strait Alliance, iyo yakapa sangano simba rekusimudza rutsigiro rwunobvisirwa mutero kubva kune vanopa, hwaro hwakazvimirira, uye masosi ehurumende mukati meUnited States. Ndichifamba muBritish Columbia, ndakabata GSA mushure mekupedza mazuva akati wandei kayaking uye musasa muStrait yese kuti nditarise nezve ruzivo rwangu uye kuvatenda nekuedza kwavo kwese kuchengetedza nzvimbo iyi inoshamisa. Michelle Young, mutarisiri wezvemari wesangano, akatsinhira zvandaiona uye akabvuma kuti iyewo kazhinji “akawedzera mafuta [ake] kukwasva nechikepe Desolation Sound neGeorgia Strait.”

Sezvo kutyisidzira kune ino ecosystem kuchiwedzera, uye shanduko yemamiriro ekunze yagadzirira kushandura biogeochemical kutenderera kwakakosha kune hutano nekugadzikana kwenzvimbo yekudya webhu, The Ocean Foundation inofara kuve nemushandi akasimba muGeorgia Strait Alliance kugadzirisa zvakawanda zvakatipoteredza. nyaya dzakatarisana nenzvimbo uye kugadzira nzira dzesainzi, dzinotungamirwa nenharaunda dzekuchengetedza nzvimbo iyi yakakosha.

Kudzoka kuWashington DC, mhirizhonga inodzorwa yekugara mumaguta kazhinji inoita seinodzikamisa ruzha rwezvisikwa. Asi, kana masairini achirira, marambi emotokari ari kupofumadzwa, kupisa kunotyisa kweguta rine machakwi-rakashanduka-shanduka kunodzvinyirira, uye gungwa richiita seri kure kwazvo, ndinoedza kutizira kunzvimbo iri kure muBritish Columbia, uko madonhwe emvura. pwanya nzvimbo ine magirazi semirioni yezvitubu zvekristaro, ruvara rweblue silhouette yemahombekombe egungwa inokwena padenga regore rakaderera, uye ruzha chete, hapana zvachose.

Iyo Georgia Strait Alliance inoshanda neThe Ocean Foundation seimwe ye "Shamwari dzeMari," hukama hwakatenderwa hwerubatsiro hunoita kuti masangano epasi rese atsvage rutsigiro kubva kune vanopa mari vekuUS. Kuti udzidze zvakawanda nezve Friends of Fund modhi uye Fiscal Sponsorship Chirongwa kuThe Ocean Foundation, ndapota tishanyire pa: https://oceanfdn.org/ocean-conservation-projects/fiscal-sponsorship. Zvakare, kana iwe uri munharaunda, ndapota tsigira GSA pachiitiko chavo chiri kuuya, "An Manheru NeStrait," iri kuitika muna Gumiguru 24, 2013 muVictoria, BC. Kuti uwane rumwe ruzivo, ndapota shanyira peji rechiitiko pawebhusaiti yavo:http://www.georgiastrait.org/?q=node/1147.