- That sea that gives us so much.
UNESCO just removed the Galapagos Islands from the list of World Heritage in Danger. And more than half a billion people have seen, thanks to new technologies allied with television and film, the planet’s new Marine Sanctuary in the 13 Enchanted Islands; that trip that any human should be able to make before their death, better than the pyramids or ancient Greece, to see how the world was before the war.
We have had two fellow countrymen, just diving into the screen of one hour, accompanied by the warm and heartfelt voice of Miguel Bosé, and the executive capacity of the marine ecologist Enric Sala, who is called “the Jacques Cousteau of the century XXI”, after being underwater for more than 20 days in a submarine - and with depth remote cameras - to show what happens under “the jewel of the crown”, rating that would give Charles Darwin to this archipelago more than a century and a half ago and that was proclaimed World Heritage Site in 1978.
In that deep waters, the largest biomass hammerhead sharks are housed in more than thirty-eight thousand square kilometers. The presidents of Ecuador and Costa Rica, our famous singer pop, and hundreds of spectators have gone to the pier of Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz, to witness the premiere of the film Galapagos, The Islands of Evolution. And this is because it is the only place you can walk as freely among iguanas and Blue-footed Boody, swim among giant tortoises without harming mother nature, or go with the sea lions the best place in the world for sport diving.
This is proof that environmental public policies can be designed to enable management plans for human migration, with an orderly tourist flow, or do sustainable fishing activities. Because a dead shark hammer can cost up to US $ 180. However, that very same shark alive comes to be worth more than US $ 300 000 per year and about US $ 5 million throughout his life due the development of tourism. This has been by validated experts in this National Geographic film.
The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, took the microphone to make a call to the leaders of Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia and Peru, countries in the marine strip of the American Pacific, to expand "fully protected areas in our waters and care for oceanic corridors that connect them". Dr. Enric Sala thanked "for this gift to humanity. It's a drop in a very large ocean. But still, it is a valuable, unique and irreplaceable drop, to protect the health of the sea that gives us so much. "
This is another signal to the world that we can do different things when currently less than three percent of the planet's oceans are protected. The Grupo Excelencias also supports this initiative and puts its media network at this service. Arte por Excelencia, in particular, will exclusively tell us about the premiere by an eyewitness.
Our Miguel Bosé said it from his public commitment to the environmental cause, "Galapagos is a unique mold, if something happens, we will lose something unique".