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Are you a saltwater aquarist looking for adventure? TheTela Marine Research Centerin Honduras is looking for a volunteer aquarist to help manage the first and only public aquarium in the country.
The aquarium inTelacurrently has five saltwater tanks with livestock collected from Tela Bay, and they are looking to double their building capacity by next year. Tela is looking for an aquarist who can help with daily aquarium maintenance and animal husbandry, someone who can build knowledge of local staff to maintain, and provide ideas for designing a larger aquarium space.
如果您认为自己有需要的东西,或者希望有关该职位的更多详细信息发送您的简历和求职信here. Volunteers will receive food, accommodation, and scuba diving, including diver training if you are not already certified.
关于Tela
就在6年前,在Tela中发现了一个惊人的珊瑚礁。亲自去那里,我可以告诉你这个地方确实是物种。他们发现这些珊瑚礁与您典型的中美洲(加勒比海)珊瑚礁的不同。加勒比海的平均健康珊瑚覆盖范围约为每平方米16-18%,Tela具有健康的珊瑚覆盖范围,平均每平方米70%以上(该地区平均水平超过400%)。
自从发现这种不寻常的珊瑚密度以来,来自世界各地的科学家一直将注意力集中在Tela,地方政府一直在保护其保护,当地社区和企业已经确定了旅游业的新机会。
Several scholarly articles about this reef are in process of being written, and it is safe to assume at the moment that one of the main reasons this reef is so dense in coral coverage is its high density of二脑静脉(Long Spiny Sea Urchin). This little animal used to be one of the most common organisms in the Mesoamerican Reef, about 2-4 per square meter.
早在1983年大规模死亡事件(大马林e mass mortality ever recorded in history) decimated the population to total extinction in some areas and to unsustainable densities in others. For some reason still not known to science Tela still boasts a healthy pre-mortality population of Diadema. Considering that algae overgrowth is one of the main problems plaguing our reef today, a keystone grazer like the Diadema is of vital importance to the survival of our Reef Ecosystems as we know then today.
这导致了Tela海洋研究中心的创建。
自从最初创建该机构以来,该机构在几个方面领先。他们首先开始与当地社区和政府机构合作,说服他们我们需要保护这一领域。在短短的5年中野生动物保护区。就在上周,年度最佳国会第一届会议已经获得了Tela海洋公园的最终批准,该公园现在拥有100%的保护!
This would have not been possible if not by all the data and information that is being gathered by several scientists working with us in the area, and especially by our UK partners Operation Wallacea. We have also partnered with other foreign partners who have worked both on site and with the central government to work through the bureaucracy and the politics of protecting these amazing reefs, to mention some Healthy Reefs for Healthy People and Coral Reef Alliance, who have been key to this process.
Which leads to the Marine Aquarium. You see here in Honduras Tela has great reefs, Roatan and Utila are well know in the Diving industry and have been voted several years in a row by Trip Advisor as some of the best Caribbean Islands to visit. But these places are usually visited mostly by foreigners, which is great for the tourism industry but not so great to create awareness among the local communities.
这就是我们得出的结论,如果当地社区没有访问礁石的手段,那将是我们将礁石带给他们的责任。将海洋带给人民。他们把小海洋迟到的小海洋变成了一个公共水族馆。
原来,水族馆很受欢迎,游客和当地人都喜欢它,学校排队参观它,当地大学表示有兴趣建立伙伴关系以与我们一起访问和合作。不幸的是,这个小水族馆必须让在潜水季节需要海洋实验室的科学家们让路。
All species have to be taken back to the exact same place from where they were extracted, and we will have to wait another 6 months to start the Aquarium again. As you may imagine this is not ideal, so we decided to build a full fledged Marine Aquarium (the first in Honduras).