They had so much knowledge about a particular area that they used to fish, and now they can show tourists the beauty of it, and create a tourist industry that can sustain them.” Corals that have suffered from a process known as coral bleaching. Something I was involved with a long time ago in my travels, before I was making films, was training local fisherman on very remote islands in the Indian Ocean to give up fishing and instead start to take tourists out. If we can feel the love and the respect of a place, that can truly drive conservation. “When managed right, ecotourism can be an incredibly important and potent tool towards conservation.
#BLUE PLANET SCUBA WASHINGTON DC HOW TO#
Photograph copyright Dan Beecham 2017 How to be an Ethical Tourist in the Indian Ocean There are the massive groupers in the Caribbean that will swim 30 miles to get to one particular location to spawn, that creates incredible vulnerability from overfishing.”Ĭontinue Reading Article After Our Video Recommended Fodor’s Video Gray reef sharks patrol the drop-off at the edge of the coral reef in Fakarava, French Polynesia. Another classic case is the aggregation of groupers, which we’ve seen in a number of places around the world. But something unique to French Polynesia is that there is much less fishing of sharks than in other places around the world sharks are essentially protected because the ancient Polynesian folklore is that they are defendants of the inhabitants that have come back to patrol the reefs and rule the oceans and enjoy the beauty of them. Coral reefs should a whole load of top predators, including sharks, but it’s the top predators that tend to go the quickest, because there are fewer of them. Sharks, as you know, are severely overfished the world out. “Overfishing can be a really big to coral. Jonathan Smith Photograph copyright Steven Benjamin 2017 How Ancient Polynesian Folklore Helps Save Coral Reefs Smith talked to us about chasing stories of clownfish in Borneo, his outlook on climate change, and why these places are not so off-limits to travelers after all. Part of that team was Jonathan Smith, who works as a natural history producer for the BBC in Bristol, England, and also has a background in marine biology.įor the series’ third episode, “Coral Reefs,” which Smith produced, viewers are taken to the Coral Triangle in Raja Ampat in Southeast Asia, and reefs in Australia, the Bahamas, and French Polynesia, to observe biodiversity in coral on different parts of the planet. Over the course of the last several years, the team behind BBC's 'Blue Planet II' traveled to 39 different countries, and filmed more than 6,000 hours of footage of wildlife in the depths of the ocean.
0 kommentar(er)
