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How Ancient Hawaiian Fishponds Sustain Ocean Ecosystems | National Geographic
How Ancient Hawaiian Fishponds Sustain Ocean Ecosystems | National Geographic
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I spent the first eight years of my life in Guyana,
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before moving to London
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and I've always felt like a country girl at heart.
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That feeling of connectedness with nature
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is something I carry with me.
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Since I've been in Hawai’i, I've heard the term
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‘mālama āina’. What does that mean?
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Mālama āina is really important to us here in Hawai'i.
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It literally means to take care of the land and the ocean.
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A quarter of the species that we have here in the ocean
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can only be found here in Hawai'i.
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And the ocean provides for us all.
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So how is Hawai’i's coastal waters doing?
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As remote as we are,
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we're still really vulnerable to things like climate change
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and overfishing and pollution.
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But we are really focused on educating our keiki, our children
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and through education, I do believe we can heal the ecosystem.
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My first memory of going to the ocean is with my dad.
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It looked like a giant pool that would never end.
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But for a lot of kids living in Hawai’i today,
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the ocean can feel far away
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and even a little scary.
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Hawai’i reminds me a bit of my home in French Polynesia.
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It's a privilege to experience these incredible marine ecosystems
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as a Sea Beyond Ambassador.
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There are just under 300,000 kids
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under the age of 18 living in Hawai’i
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and half of them, they can't swim.
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They need more opportunities to connect with the ocean directly
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and build a relationship with it.
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My favorite way to learn about the ocean
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is to get in and play.
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I sometimes dive and grab little hermit crabs.
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They're really cute.
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When you put them on your hand, they kind of tickle.
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Our land and our oceans are connected
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and what happened in one affects the other.
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We have to look after both.
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Really grateful that you guys are here.
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Come on. Spread out a little bit. So everybody gets a lot of space.
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Aloha guys, good morning.
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So today I'm going to ask you to learn from our ancestors
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and I'm gonna ask you to become good ancestors.
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So Kapono, we are walking here into a really sacred and important place.
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- Where are we? - This is Waikalua Loko i’a,
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it's one of only a few fishponds
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that remain of what used to be fifty along this bay
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that fed our people sustainably for generations.
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And can you tell us more about how it works?
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So we're actually walking on what's called a kuapā,
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the fishpond wall, which is a porous wall with openings
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that we call mākāhā, the sluice gates, mākāhā,
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that let small herbivorous fish in and keep the predators out.
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We're really proud to be a partner with Blue Schools
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and be able to bring kids out onto site
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so that they can learn through hands-on learning,
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get wet in the pond and get muddy
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and see how this ancient technology works.
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We are so lucky to live in this place
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in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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I want to look after it.
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We all do.
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So we have another saying here in Hawai’i,
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it's ‘e mālama i ke kai a mālama ke kai iā ʻoe’,
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which means if we take care of the ocean,
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it'll take care of us.
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I love that.
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I guess ocean literacy means
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understanding our influence on the ocean
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and then the ocean's influence on us.
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Exactly. It's about re-finding that balance.
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As we pass the halfway point of the UN Ocean Decade,
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Prada’s Sea Beyond partnership with UNESCO
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has never been more important.
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We need to support the next generation of ocean custodians,
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so we can all Sea Beyond.
