Thomas Peschakのインスタグラム(thomaspeschak) - 10月28日 22時30分

Now I don't want to ruin your appetite, but in light of some of the comments on my last post I feel like I need to show this photograph. I know it's not easy but please look at the image carefully and read the caption. Some of you had strong concerns about my photograph of tourists in Baja California touching/ petting gray whales. While in most other situations I am a firm advocate of not touching marine wildlife, San Ignacio lagoon is a unique exception. Here the whales have initiated and controlled these interactions for over 30 years, with no harm coming to them from this practice. In fact the local fishermen who seasonally earn their living from whale watching are now the whale's fiercest guardians and without their conservation voice this critical lagoon would have been degraded through salt mining and industrial activities long ago. The photograph of the dead mako shark, also made in Baja illustrates what often happens when local communities in developing countries do not benefit from marine biodiversity. At this location sharks are still worth more dead than alive, thus they are landed and killed almost daily. In San Ignacio lagoon whales are worth significantly more alive than dead and have become the flagship umbrella species that protects the entire ecosystem. TALK TO ME. I would love to hear all of your thoughts about sustainable marine ecotourism as a alternative to consumptive exploitation of marine wildlife. There are no easy solutions and this is not a simple equation of evil (fishing) vs. good (tourism).

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