Aescleah's Walk for Hector's (Louis' support)
Created By:
LouisBrown
About this fundraiser:
Who benefits:
It is important to me to support Aescleah's initiative, passion and focus in her project 'Walk for Hectors' - to regenerate the Hector's dolphins that swim around the South Island! Go Aescleah, go the dolphins!
The fundraising mission:
I walked from Christchurch to Akaroa on the 4, 5 and 6 March, 2010 with 11 other people. The aim was to promote discussion and considered action with regards to Hector's Dolphins and support the success of Aescleah's project.
09 Mar
Hector's Dolphins
By Louis Brown
Hi all. I was invited to join a walk from Christchurch to Akaroa to support young Cantabrian 15 year old Aescleah Hawkins on her amazing project 'Walk for Hectors' in mid-February of this year. What amazing passion, initiative and focus this young woman has demonstrated to regenerate the Hector's dolphin population swimming around our coastlines (to go straight to some Hector's resources (including Eye to Eye - 2005 navigate to bottom of this blog).
Since Mid-February Aescleah has inspired me to find out more about the dolphins that swim in our beautiful sea and how particuarly 'lay' South Islanders relate to these amazing animals as well as different organisational members of our community (industrial users of the . Based on the generel idea that is is relevant and important for us to talk about now, the rationale being Hector's Dolphin populations are becoming less, which is linked to how we use the sea and coastlines around the South Island (where most Hector's Dolphins live).
What I have discovered is that we all have different perceptions of these ocean loving creatures, and these are closely linked with our (NZers) land-based lives and our ocean-loving livelihoods. Alone, the previous sentance is quite ambiguos but when we place that idea in the context of how collectively we 'govern' Hector's Dolphins it specifically relates to the well-known idea there are multiple, competing interests for the 'right' way to govern our oceans and regenerating the Hector's Dolphin population.
To understand these different 'interests' I have watched a couple of films and read through a couple of websites for how they approach the issue. I would invite you to do the same :)
Eye to Eye (2005) Eric Henningsen 24 Mins Film
Hector's Dolphins (20??) Off the Fence, Babelgum and WWF as Extinction Sucks Project) 25 Mins Film
Music for Maui's (2007) Gemma McGrath Hour long Fundraising Music CD
MFish (2010) New Zealand Government information website
Seafood Industry Council (2010) Seafood Industry Council information website
And thats all for now :)
09 Mar
More resources
By Louis Brown
Here is another film:
Beyond the Kelp (2003) Rohan Currey and Amy Taylor 24 Mins Film
Other resources anyone? ...
