WRITING A REPORT (UNIT 7)

A REPORT

DEAR COLLEAGUE

I have a group of students who are planning to visit your area next week.

They belong to a nature conservation group called Marine Biological Reserve, and they would be interested in seeing some local wildlife, vegetation, landscapes.  I was wondering if you could send them a brief report recommending a place they could visit ?

They just need to know what the place is, why it is a suitable place to visit, and practical considerations such as how to get there.

REPORT

TO: Galapagos Marine Biological Reserve

FROM: Sylvia Chango

RE: I plan to visit the Galapagos Islands.

INTRODUCTION

this reserve is in the island region, Colon Archipelago, Galápagos Province with a depth of 0-4000 m.

TOURISM: Tourism activity conducted in Galapagos is an important income for the country and the islands (Montesinos 2002). In 2005 the entry was recorded 122,445 tourists, of which 68,066 (56%) and recreational activities conducted visits to the GMR (GNPS 2006). The Reserve has identified more than 60 tourist sites, of which only a few are used frequently, many others do not receive more than 100 tourists a year, or have never been visited, showing overfishing in certain areas and under-exploitation in others.

                

BACKGROUND

Vegetation types: intertidal zone (mangroves, lagoons, coastal, sandy beaches, rocky beaches and cliffs), coastal waters (funds and sub-tidal rocky vertical walls, coral reefs and sandy bottoms) open water or pelagic (low) .

VEGETATION: The food web in the ocean begins with marine plants: phytoplankton, macroalgae and mangroves, which nourish herbivores, which in turn are eaten by carnivores. On the need for light, all plants are limited to living in the shallows of the sea, where the solar incidence is higher.

WILDLIFE: Regarding marine diversity, currently there are records of more than 2909 species, of which 18.2% are endemic, although on average by taxonomic group endemism exceeds 21% (Bustamante et al. 2002a).

 

                    

ATTRACTIONS FOR YOUR GROUP

Visitors have different things to do and see, once you finish your voyage at sea.

the fishing has been the main source of income for the Galapagos, but from the forties, there have been dramatic changes when subsistence fishing began to be replaced by another larger scale, the same that has caused a stir among the Status, conservation organizations and the same group of fishermen catching shark fins is incidental rather than craft, which are basically for export, as it has a very lucrative and beneficial cost.

In the reserve there is variety of fauna characteristic of the place, which makes it irreplaceable compared to other coastal areas of the continent. The most picturesque and vast marine species found in the reserve include the stripe, blue whale, shark, whale, orca, pilot whales, hammerhead sharks, false killer whales and spotted dolphins, bottlenose and Risso, joined them the green turtle, common dolphin, sea cucumber, cod and lobster.

  

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

HOW WE: Access, in the first instance, by air from the Ecuadorian mainland to the islands, or by sea rarely. From here you can venture to the coastal areas of life or, failing that, by boat to open water areas where you can do different activities.

this reserve is worth $ 8 two adults one child, all this value covers visits to the various acres of land with the reservation.

                                    

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