Delʹta Okavanho - odna z samykh krasyvykh zabolochenykh mistsevostey̆ v
Afrytsi. Odnak, ostannim chasom, chyselʹnistʹ tvaryn v delʹti pochala
rizko skorochuvatysya.
Delʹta Okavanho, nay̆bilʹsha v sviti
vnutrishnya delʹta, yaka vesʹ chas svoho isnuvannya bula zolotoyu
zhyloyu dlya bahatʹokh afrykantsiv. Delʹta roztashovana v Bot·svani, v
pusteli Kalakhari, i ye batʹkivshchynoyu dlya bahatʹokh vydiv tvaryn.
Faktychno, osnovna chastyna delʹty - myslyvsʹkyy̆ zakaznyk Moremi.
Protyahom desyatylitʹ, delʹta Okavanho zaluchaye fakhivtsiv z tvarynoyu
i turystiv, zamanyuyuchy ïkh svoyeyu fantastychnoyu faunoyu. Odnak, v
ostanni roky, chislennotʹ osobyn tvaryn, shcho meshkayutʹ v tsiy̆
mestnsti, stala rizko skorochuvatysya.
Yakshcho viryty
ostannʹoï aerofotoznimannyu, shcho provodytʹsya v Pivnichnomu
Bot·svani, chyselʹnistʹ deyakykh vydiv ssavtsiv skorotylasya pryblyzno
na 60%. Nay̆hirshe sytuatsiya z populyatsiyeyu antylop hnu. U 1999
rotsi kilʹkistʹ osobyn tsʹoho vydu stanovyla 23538, zaraz zhe - vsʹoho
1995.
Takozh v khodi doslidzhennya bulo vyyavleno znyzhennya
populyatsiï zhyrafiv na 8%, kilʹkistʹ osobyn velykykh i malykh kudu
skorotylosya na 11%, Lichey̆ - na 7%, a antylop topy na 13%.
Zalyshylysya vydam ssavtsiv, zdayetʹsya, tezh dovodytʹsya nelehko.
Bahato ekspertiv vvazhayutʹ rezulʹtaty ohlyadu duzhe sumnivnymy,
hruntuyuchysʹ na tomu, shcho tse kampaniya, retelʹno produmana ZMI, dlya
zaluchennya uvahy turystiv usʹoho svitu do zakaznyku. Ale yak by tam
ne bulo, okhorontsi pryrodnykh resursiv «dzvonyatʹ u dzvony»,
stverdzhuyuchy, shcho problema maye mistse.
Ochevydno,
vtruchannya mistsevoï vlady v zhyttya delʹty Okavanho bulo ne
nay̆krashchoyu ideyeyu, tomu shcho zasukhy, bahattya, a takozh parkany
postavyly pid zahrozu zhyttya meshkantsiv oblasti.
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