GNP promotes lecture about the importance of water
Jan 30, 2009 - Gorongosa National Park
The audience came from the Gorongosa Mountain communities
A lecture about the importance of water for human life, plant species and animals was carried out on the 15th of December 2008.
The lecture was administered by Dr. Carlos Bento, the foremost Mozambican ornithologist, presently working at the Museum of Natural History, connected to Eduardo Mondlane University and to the Rehabilitation Project of Gorongosa National Park (GNP).
In his explanation, Dr. Carlos Bento briefly discussed the importance of water in agriculture, the role of it in local and regional socioeconomic development and also how to utilize it well.
The main objective was to expand the disclosure of information, as well as raise the awareness of the participants about the importance of the preservation of Gorongosa Mountain Range, knowing that it features a complex ecosystem that shelters a diversified flora and fauna. Beyond constituting an important water supplying spring for the district of Gorongosa and for the city of Beira, it also contains a significant part of the water resources of the region, since it is a natural divisor of the hydrographical basins that drain into the coastline. The mountain range also guarantees the lives of the animals of GNP and of the maintenance of its ecosystems.
On the other hand, the speaker said that we depend on water for live. However, in spite of its great importance, people continue destroying the forests and polluting the rivers and their sources, forgetting how essential it is for our lives.
"Look at what is happening in the mountain range at the present: people knock down the forests and burn them. As a result of this the rain levels tend to diminish, having prolonged periods without precipitation, contrary to past years, affecting agricultural production and productivity", he said.
To those present, the specialist in the study of birds left a warning message for the need for preservation of the mountain range as a form of continuing to have rains and water for diverse ends. "We count on all of you to pass this information to other members of your communities", affirmed Dr. Bento, remembering that the protection of life is in everyone’s hands.
Dr. Carlos Bento, speaker of the lecture about the importance of water
The lecture was administered by Dr. Carlos Bento, the foremost Mozambican ornithologist, presently working at the Museum of Natural History, connected to Eduardo Mondlane University and to the Rehabilitation Project of Gorongosa National Park (GNP).
In his explanation, Dr. Carlos Bento briefly discussed the importance of water in agriculture, the role of it in local and regional socioeconomic development and also how to utilize it well.
The main objective was to expand the disclosure of information, as well as raise the awareness of the participants about the importance of the preservation of Gorongosa Mountain Range, knowing that it features a complex ecosystem that shelters a diversified flora and fauna. Beyond constituting an important water supplying spring for the district of Gorongosa and for the city of Beira, it also contains a significant part of the water resources of the region, since it is a natural divisor of the hydrographical basins that drain into the coastline. The mountain range also guarantees the lives of the animals of GNP and of the maintenance of its ecosystems.
On the other hand, the speaker said that we depend on water for live. However, in spite of its great importance, people continue destroying the forests and polluting the rivers and their sources, forgetting how essential it is for our lives.
"Look at what is happening in the mountain range at the present: people knock down the forests and burn them. As a result of this the rain levels tend to diminish, having prolonged periods without precipitation, contrary to past years, affecting agricultural production and productivity", he said.
To those present, the specialist in the study of birds left a warning message for the need for preservation of the mountain range as a form of continuing to have rains and water for diverse ends. "We count on all of you to pass this information to other members of your communities", affirmed Dr. Bento, remembering that the protection of life is in everyone’s hands.
Dr. Carlos Bento, speaker of the lecture about the importance of water
Also brought into focus in the meeting was the problematic situation of mining in Tsiquir, where the environment is more and more threatened by the activity of the diamond prospectors that operate in that zone.
The lecture integrates the "Let’s Save Gorongosa Mountain Range Campaign", with programming and promotion defined by the Forest Program of GNP. This program is being developed in partnership with the resident communities through the plantation of new native trees as a way of preventing the eminent danger of the disappearance of the forest, in consequence of the arbitrary tree cutting in order to open farms as well as uncontrolled burnings.
The event lasted about three hours and was carried out in the Training Room of the Chitengo Safari Camp Center in GNP. It included the presence of close to fifty participants, among them the permanent secretary of the district administration of Gorongosa, leaders of administrative positions in Vunduzi and in Nhamadzi-Canda, chiefs, village leaders and natural resource management committees of Tambarara, Canda, and Sadjunjira.
Carlitos Sunza
Department of Communications/GNP
The lecture integrates the "Let’s Save Gorongosa Mountain Range Campaign", with programming and promotion defined by the Forest Program of GNP. This program is being developed in partnership with the resident communities through the plantation of new native trees as a way of preventing the eminent danger of the disappearance of the forest, in consequence of the arbitrary tree cutting in order to open farms as well as uncontrolled burnings.
The event lasted about three hours and was carried out in the Training Room of the Chitengo Safari Camp Center in GNP. It included the presence of close to fifty participants, among them the permanent secretary of the district administration of Gorongosa, leaders of administrative positions in Vunduzi and in Nhamadzi-Canda, chiefs, village leaders and natural resource management committees of Tambarara, Canda, and Sadjunjira.
Carlitos Sunza
Department of Communications/GNP
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