How To Help The Galapagos Region
Thankfully, there are already efforts to try and protect the Galapagos. According to www.worldwildlife.org, people are trying to talk fishermen out of overfishing. Worldwildlife helps, ¨implement a new ecotourism based model to both support conservation and improve people's livelihoods through collaboration with partners, government and communities.¨ This will help protect the marine ecosystem and ecotourism will help reduce over tourism and it is smart to work with other big companies and the government to further proceed in this process. An organization to donate money to is the Charles Darwin Research Station in Puerto Ayora which is a research donation foundation that helps research the Galapagos and that might help protect the ecosystem by finding ways to use less fossil fuels and pollute less (www.darwinfoundation.org). All you have to do is go to www.darwinfoundation.org and select ¨donate¨. Then you select your amount and if this will continue every month and click ¨donate¨ again. On the websites
But donation isn't the only way to help. According to www.galapagosconservation.org and www.imperial.ac, you can find some ways to help protect the Galapagos like:
Eat less dairy and meat products
Reduce your energy usage
Respect and protect green spaces and areas
Make your voice heard by those in power
These are all ways to help stop climate change and global warming which is a big problem in the Galapagos in both the marine and land ecosystems by increasing the water level, unpredictable weather patterns and more. Another thing you could do to help is save electricity. By doing this you are cutting down on your fossil fuel usage. Specific ways to help save electricity are
Save energy at home.
Change your home's source of energy to renewable ways of energy like solar and wind power
Walk, bike or take public transport rather than using your car because your car releases carbon dioxide into the air and then into the atmosphere switching to an electric vehicle will help reduce that.
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle such as reducing electricity usage, reuse things instead of throwing them away, repair things rather than buying a new version and recycle recyclable things instead of throwing them away
Eat more vegetables and throw away less food.
Not throwing things away helps because trash sometimes ends up in the ocean where it might wash up to the shores of the Galapagos and sometimes, trash is toxic to certain animals (www.un.org). This could end up saving animals all around the world. If we all took part in these ways to help, animals and plants in the Galapagos might still be able to thrive and survive but nothing couldn't happen with people that are around the world like you.