Sustainable tourism initiative imapeza thandizo kuchokera kwa akatswiri othamanga a Olympic

Nairobi – Katswiri wothamanga wa Olympic Usain Bolt adapumira pang'ono Lachisanu kuti akhazikitse Zeitz Foundation's Long Run Initiative, yomwe cholinga chake ndi kupanga ndi kuthandizira ntchito zokopa alendo padziko lonse lapansi.

Pulojekiti yoyeserera ya Long Run Initiative ku Kenya ndi malo osungira maekala 50 adzuwa komanso oyendetsedwa ndi mphepo m'chigawo cha Rift Valley chokhala ndi mpweya wocheperako.

“Ngakhale kuti ndimadziŵika chifukwa chothamanga mitunda yaifupi, ndikufuna kulimbikitsa ena kuti adzakhale nane pakapita nthawi. Chilichonse choyenera kuchita ndichofunika kuyesetsa ndipo tsogolo la dziko lathu lapansi ndilomwe limayambitsa ”, adatero Bolt, Kazembe wa Zachikhalidwe wa Zeitz Foundation.

Polankhula pamsonkhano wa atolankhani ku Nairobi, Mtsogoleri wa Pulogalamu ya Zeitz, Liz Rihoy, adanena kuti ali ndi chiyembekezo kuti ntchitoyi idzakhala yoyendetsa kukula kobiriwira m'derali popanga chitsanzo chogwiritsa ntchito zokopa alendo pofuna kulimbikitsa chitetezo cha chilengedwe.

Nduna yowona za maiko akunja ku Kenya, Moses Wetangula, ndi yemwe ali ndi mbiri ya World Indoor Hurdles Record, Colin Jackson, ndi ena mwa anthu olemekezeka omwe adabwera kudzathandizira mwambowu.

Malinga ndi a Jochen Zeitz, woyambitsa Zeitz Foundation, filimu ya 2009 "Home" pa dziko lapansi, yolembedwa ndi kazembe wa UNEP Goodwill Ambassador ndi wojambula mafilimu wotchuka wa ku France, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, ndiye adalimbikitsa kwambiri ntchitoyi. "Zithunzi zochititsa chidwi za momwe dziko lapansi zimagwirira ntchito zikuwonetsa kuti tonse titha kuthandiza kuti dziko likhale lokhazikika," adatero.

Kupatula Kenya, a Long Run Initiative adzayambitsa ntchito za Ecotourism ku Brazil, Tanzania, Costa Rica, Indonesia, New Zealand, Sweden ndi Namibia. Ntchitozi zikuyembekezeredwa kuti zithandizira kuteteza zachilengedwe ndi chikhalidwe cha m'mayikowa.

Ecotourism ndiyofunikira kwambiri ku UNEP chifukwa cha momwe imakhudzira kasungidwe, kukhazikika, komanso kusiyanasiyana kwachilengedwe.

Monga chida chachitukuko, ecotourism imapititsa patsogolo zolinga zazikulu za Convention on Biological Diversity polimbitsa kasamalidwe ka malo otetezedwa ndikuwonjezera kufunika kwa chilengedwe ndi nyama zakuthengo. Ma projekiti a Ecotourism amaperekanso njira yokhazikika yosamalira zachilengedwe pothandizira kupeza ndalama, ntchito ndi mwayi wamabizinesi, kupindulitsa mabizinesi ndi madera amderalo.