Nairobi - Ua hoʻomaha ka poʻokela ʻOlumepika ʻo Usain Bolt mai ke ala i ka Pōʻalima e hoʻomaka i ka Zeitz Foundation's Long Run Initiative, kahi e manaʻo ai e hana a kākoʻo i nā papahana ecotourism a puni ka honua.
ʻO ka papahana hoʻokele a ka Long Run Initiative ma Kenya he 50-acre solar and wind-powered conservancy ma ka ʻāina ʻo Rift Valley me kahi kapuaʻi kalapona haʻahaʻa.
"ʻOiai ua ʻike ʻia wau no ka holo ʻana i kahi mamao pōkole, makemake wau e hoʻoikaika i nā poʻe ʻē aʻe e hui pū me aʻu i ka holo lōʻihi. ʻO nā mea a pau e pono ai ka hana ʻana, ʻo ia ke kumu nui o ka wā e hiki mai ana," wahi a Bolt, ka ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa o Zeitz Foundation.
Ma ke kamaʻilio ʻana i ka hoʻolaha paʻi ʻana o ka hui ma Nairobi, ua ʻōlelo ʻo Zeitz Program Director, Liz Rihoy, ua manaʻolana ʻo ia e lilo ka papahana i mea hoʻokele o ka ulu ʻōmaʻomaʻo o ka ʻāina ma o ka hoʻokumu ʻana i kahi kumu hoʻohālike no ka hoʻohana ʻana i ka mākaʻikaʻi e hāpai i ka pale o nā wahi kūlohelohe.
ʻO ke Kuhina o ko nā ʻāina ʻē ʻo Kenyan, ʻo Moses Wetangula, a me ka World Indoor Hurdles Record Holder, ʻo Colin Jackson, kekahi o nā mea hanohano i hōʻike ikaika e kākoʻo i ka hanana.
Wahi a Jochen Zeitz, ka mea nāna i hoʻokumu i ka Zeitz Foundation, ʻo ke kiʻi ʻoniʻoni ʻo 2009 "Home" ma ka mokuʻāina o ka honua, na UNEP Goodwill Ambassador a me ka mea hana kiʻiʻoniʻoni Farani kaulana, ʻo Yann Arthus-Bertrand, ka mea hoʻoikaika nui no ka papahana. "ʻO ka hōʻike kupaianaha o ka hana ʻana o ka honua e hōʻike ana hiki iā mākou ke hana i ka hāʻawi ʻana i kahi honua hoʻomau," wahi āna.
Ma waho aʻe o Kenya, e hoʻomaka ka Long Run Initiative i nā papahana Ecotourism ma Brazil, Tanzania, Costa Rica, Indonesia, New Zealand, Sweden a me Namibia. Manaʻo ʻia nā papahana e kōkua i ka mālama ʻana i ka hoʻoilina kūlohelohe a me ka moʻomeheu i kēia mau ʻāina.
He hoihoi koʻikoʻi ka Ecotourism i ka UNEP no kona hopena i ka mālama, hoʻomau, a me nā ʻano olaola.
Ma ke ʻano he mea hana hoʻomohala, hoʻomohala ka ecotourism i nā pahuhopu kumu o ka Convention on Biological Diversity ma o ka hoʻoikaika ʻana i ka hoʻokele wahi i pale ʻia a hoʻonui i ka waiwai o nā kaiaola a me nā holoholona hihiu. Hāʻawi nā papahana Ecotourism i kahi ala hoʻomau i ka mālama ʻana ma ke kōkua ʻana i ka loaʻa kālā, nā hana a me nā manawa ʻoihana, e pōmaikaʻi ana i nā ʻoihana a me nā kaiāulu kūloko.
