00:14I came to 30 years to the Amazonas.
00:16At that time, the indigenous people called me Omachi and they were laughing.
00:19I didn't know very well what they were talking about.
00:21Finally, they thought that I was transformed into a dolphin
00:24to protect the dolphins.
00:26It was a very beautiful symbol.
00:27I decided I wanted to leave.
00:29I ended up creating a foundation, the Fundación Omachi.
00:3435 km.
00:35Uy, they moved a lot to Perú.
00:38We have captured dolphins in Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia.
00:42They put us small transmissores, like an arete in the aleta dorsal.
00:46How to do it, how to do it, how to do it, how to do it.
00:51In the monitoring of dolphins that we just did,
00:54we already found 18 dolphins.
00:56That means that the situation here in Tarapoto is in good conditions.
01:01Here in Colombia, for example, we have the population in these 116 km from the Amazonas
01:06that we have around 320 delfines rosados.
01:10This is the expedition number 21, from the year 2006.
01:14We have done several years and, unfortunately, we have found that the population of dolphins
01:19have been disminued.
01:20The conservation, for us, is prohibition.
01:25And that's where I have the work that I have to explain to people that conservation is not prohibitive.
01:32It's creating mechanisms for the subsistence of species of which we depend as communities.
01:40Very soon, when I started working here, I realized that the conservation, when there is needy, when there is hunger,
01:46it's difficult.
01:47So, we had to generate economic alternatives.
01:49We have to do it.
01:55We have to do it.
02:04We have to do it.
02:06We have to find out how many dolphins are there in this region.
02:08We are sure that every dolphin is generating a number of 20,000 dollars annually.
02:12It's a long-term because it's alive.
02:14While before, in Brazil, a dolphin's death was 25 dollars to use it as a carnival.
02:19So, the economic decision is very simple.
02:2220,000 dollars for forever or 25 dollars and you kill yourself.
02:25And, like, the activity has become much more solid.
02:28More people come to Colombia to the Amazonas to see dolphins because of that.
02:34cuidarlo, conservarlo, hacer un uso sostenible es de nosotros, depende de nosotros
02:39el Amazonas es el 17% del agua dulce de todo el planeta
02:43entonces cómo no ponerle atención, esa es la gran preocupación y es el gran reto
02:48y eso es lo que trataré de seguir haciendo
02:49a mí me mueve el corazón poder tratar de hacer algo por el Amazonas, por los delfines
02:55es la gente, es la selva, son los delfines
02:58entonces es un buen propósito para dedicar la vida, eso me mueve
03:11¡Gracias!
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