Balliviaspongia wirrmanni Exemplary green by the presence of symbiotic algae taken from a reed stalk extracted to feed livestock (San Pedro de Tiquina, Bolivia 10 September 2005). Fuji FinePix 205.
Huiñaymarka
The lake is considered by BirdLife International (Devenish et al 2009) as an Area of \u200b\u200bImportant Bird (AICA BO018) and as the lake-side Chicuito Peruano (AICA PE097) both components of Lake Titicaca. In the case of Peru, Lake Chicuito is integral and inseparable part of the National Reserve of Lake Titicaca.
Huiñaymarka Lake, from the viewpoint of San Pablo de Tiquina. Up front, San Pedro de Tiquina. In the foreground, landfills increasingly frequent on the shore of the lake completely blur the immeasurable beauty that owns and lethally contaminated habitat wirrmanni Balliviaspongia . Lumix FZ 50, April 18, 2010.
This beautiful lake and the ecosystem has a high number of endemic at all levels (invertebrates and vertebrates) (Dejoux and Iltis 1991) many of them committed conservation status (MMAyA 2009, Richard 2010) and severe problems of conservation and pollution (Richard 2010a). In this context we find a most extraordinary species: Balliviaspongia wirrmanni (Haplosclerida: Demospongiae), a freshwater sponge whose " Derivatio nominis" derives from the lake Ballivián (Gender), Pleistocene lake of the Bolivian Altiplano, while the specific allocation dedicated to Denis Wirrmann which conducted surveys and ecological observations of the lake. Wirrmanni Balliviaspongia lives between 0.1 and 19 m depth, often attached to the stems of reeds (Schoenoplectus Tator californicus), although it is also found attached to rocks. Still, the greater abundance of sponges is associated with the reeds. Paleontological data for this animal indicated an age of at least 7700 years in the lake (Dejoux and Iltis 1991). The species is one of the most affected by the problem of lake pollution and the massive extraction of reeds to subsidize exotic livestock around it (Richard 2010th, 2010b) and its current status is further exacerbated by the paradox of conservation of species (Richard 2010C) What? That I have been fighting against for years ... Dear reader, never noticed that over 90% of conservation efforts under a beautiful species, charismatic or megacarismáticas?? It seems that the right to live on planet Earth it won only species from human subjectivity are beautiful or charismatic, but those from the same subjectivity are ferocious, ugly, repulsive or the charisma of a parsley ( excuse the parsley of course), the only reason they lost the right to live and to their eventual extinction, it will be missed by no ... (Read more at http://catedraenriquerichard.blogspot.com/2010/07/la-paradoja-de-la-conservacion-la.html ) How pitiful thought, so unworthy of a species sapiens calls itself but which in fact is so far to be ... What's all this? In the species before us today, this beautiful sponge is an indicator species (and therefore suffering) of contamination of Lake Titicaca ... It is an endemic, perhaps the most affected by pollution must necessarily pass through your body as part of their biology and even more loss and shrinkage of its habitat, the reeds which rests on submerged stems. Cattails are currently unsustainably harvested for livestock, burned to "favor" (?) Regrowth and contaminated with heavy metals from mining waste flowing into the lake Titicaca from Milluni among others ...
reed to feed cattle in Bahia Cohana (Bolivia) 16 September 2006. Kodak DX 6490.
Cattle feeding on reeds and Asnar Cohana Bay, Lake Huiñaymarka. September 16, 2006. Kodak DX 6490.
Sheep feeding directly into the reeds. Now offer extended to cattle also
reed harvesting is also literally, the harvest of entire populations of Balliviaspongia wirrmanni ... just evaluating the current status of lake pollution and excessive harvesting of reeds (Habitat and support animal) (see Richard 2005, 2010th, 2010b) and sponges associated with it are enough factors to apply for this beautiful animal endemic to the lake ever considered sacred status parasternal species (For the above reasons) of Endangered
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Many colleagues and students have as many people unfortunately think ... Who cares about that animal or thing? ... To them I say: Every form of life is won before the man himself the right to live on the blue planet, all play an important role and have ... and to think differently, there is nothing but a reflection of unwarranted discriminating ...
And although the extinction of Balliviaspongia wirrmanni not missed by anyone ... I miss you and feel much like any of the creatures that, in general are charismatic ...
Research to know ...
knowledge to manage ...
Educate to keep ...
Store to thrive ...
Because ...
can not love, love, keep ...
what is not known or not known whether it exists ...
E. Richard
Balliviaspongia wirrmanni Exemplary green by the presence of symbiotic algae taken from a reed stalk extracted to feed livestock (San Pedro de Tiquina, Bolivia 10 September 2005). Fuji FinePix 205.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Denise and Melissa tireless traveling companions. A Dr Ana Maria Alderete de Majo who taught me to love the invertebrates.
bibliography
Dejoux, C. & A. Iltis. (Eds.) 1991. Lake Titicaca: Synthesis of current limnological knowledge. ORSTOM, Talleres Gráficos Hisbol. La Paz, Bolivia. 578 pp.
Devenish, C., DÍAZ FERNÁNDEZ, DF, Clay, RP, DAVIDSON, I. & YEPEZ Zabala, I. EDS. (2009) Important Bird Areas Americas - Priority sites for Biodiversity Conservation. Quito, Ecuador: BirdLife International (BirdLife Conservation Series No. 16).
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND WATER (MMAyA) 2009. Red Book of vertebrate wildlife in Bolivia. Ministry of Environment and Water, La Paz, Bolivia. 571 pp.
2005. Cohana Bay, Lake Titicaca: A paradise to discover. ROMI + Super Video CD CD (SVCD). Multimedia Theratos Ed. La Paz, Bolivia. DL 4-4-85-04. ISBN 99905-0-454-7.
RICHARD E. 2010th. CHRONICLE OF A DEATH ANUNCIADA.I. The Titicaca Kenolaba: Rollandia microptera (Reptiles [ex Birds]: Podicipediformes). Environment and Biota of Bolivia, Bulletin n0 1: 26 p. DOWNLOAD
RICHARD E. 2010b. CHRONICLE OF A DEATH ANUNCIADA.II. The Titicaca Kenolaba: Rollandia microptera (Reptiles [ex Birds]: Podicipediformes). Environment and Biota of Bolivia, Bulletin 1 (2): 27 p. DOWNLOAD
RICHARD E. and D. CONTRERAS ZAPATA. 2010. Environmental Education for the third millennium. A tribute to Mother Earth. Course notes for training trainers. Multimedia EcoDreams Ed. 366 p. La Paz, Bolivia. DOWNLOAD
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