Mena he mea e tino paingia ana e te hunga e hiahia ana ki te whakapakari tinana, ki te hunga tākaro hākinakina, ki te hunga hoki e hiahia ana ki te mahi i waho, ko ngā kākahu hangai. Heoi anō, he pai ngā rauemi pēnei i te polyester, te nairona, me te acrylic ki te tango i te makuku, he tere te maroke, ā, he tino pakari.
Engari he kirihou te mea hanga o ēnei rauemi hanga katoa. Ina whati, ina takahuri rānei ēnei muka, ka ngaro ō rātou aho, ā, ka mutu ki roto i te oneone me ngā puna wai, ka puta ai ngā raruraru hauora me te taiao. Ahakoa tō tupato, ko te pūtake matua o ēnei matūriki katoa kei roto i tō whare: ko tō mīhini horoi.
Waimarie, e toru ngā huarahi ngāwari hei ārai i te poke o te ao i ngā kirihou moroiti i ia hu.
E ai ki te ingoa, ko ngā kirihou iti he wahi iti o te kirihou, he muka kirihou rānei, kāore e kitea whānuitia ana e te kanohi tahanga. Nō reira, ko te whawhai ki te aukati i tō rātou tukunga he iti ake te ātaahua i ngā kakau kirihou, i ngā putea rānei e whakahē ana—he mahi e haere tahi ana me ngā whakaahua whakapouri o ngā honu moana e kohia ana e ngā paru. Engari e kī ana te tohunga koiora moana a Alexis Jackson he tūmomo mōrearea nui tonu ngā kirihou iti ki tō tātou taiao. Ka mōhio ia: he tohu PhD tāna. I roto i te mara o te rauropi me te koiora whanaketanga, kua rangahaua whānuitia ngā kirihou i roto i ō tātou moana i a ia e mahi ana hei kaiwhakahaere kaupapa here moana mō te peka o California o The Nature Conservancy.
Engari, he rerekē ki te hoko i ngā ngongo whakarewa, ki te kohikohi rānei i ngā putea whakamahi anō, kāore i te mārama te otinga mō tēnei raruraru moroiti. Tuatahi, he iti rawa ngā kirihou moroiti, ā, kāore e taea e ngā whare tukatuka paru te tātari i a rātou.
Ina paheke atu rātou, tata ki ngā wāhi katoa. Kei te Arctic anō hoki rātou. Ehara i te mea he kino noa iho, engari ko ngā kararehe katoa e kai ana i ēnei miro kirihou ririki ka pāngia e te aukati i roto i te ara nakunaku, ka heke te kaha me te hiahia kai, ka hua ake he aukati i te tipu me te whakaheke i te mahi whakaputa uri. Hei tāpiri, kua whakaatuhia e ngā kirihou moroiti ka mimiti i ngā matū kino pēnei i ngā konganuku taumaha me ngā patupatu, ka whakawhiti i ēnei paitini ki ngā plankton, ika, manu moana me ētahi atu kararehe mohoao.
Mai i reira, ka taea e ngā matū kino te piki ake i te mekameka kai, ka puta ake i roto i tāu kai moana, me te wai puna anō hoki.
Engari, kāore anō kia whiwhi raraunga mō te pānga roa pea o ngā kirihou moroiti ki te hauora o te tangata. Engari nā te mea e mōhio ana tātou he kino ki ngā kararehe (ā, ehara ngā kirihou i te wāhanga e taunakitia ana mō te kai hauora, taurite), e kī ana a Jackson he tika te kī kāore e tika kia whakaurua ki roto i ō tātou tinana.
Ina tae ki te wā ki te horoi i ō rekereke, i ō tarau poto poitūkohu, i tō koti horoi tinana rānei, me mahi ētahi mahi hei ārai i te taenga mai o ngā kirihou moroiti ki te taiao.
Tīmata mā te wehewehe i ngā kākahu – kaua e runga i te tae, engari mā te rauemi. Horoia motuhaketia ngā kākahu taratara, pērā i ngā tarau tiini, mai i ngā kākahu ngawari, pērā i ngā T-hāte polyester me ngā hāte huruhuru hipi. Mā tēnei, ka whakaitihia te waku i puta mai i te pānga o ngā kākahu taratara ki ngā kākahu angiangi i roto i te 40 meneti. Ko te iti o te waku, ko te tikanga kāore ō kākahu e tere te tawhito, ā, he iti ake te tūponotanga ka pakaru wawe ngā muka.
Kia tino mōhio koe ki te whakamahi i te wai matao, kaua ki te wai wera. Mā te wera ka ngoikore ngā muka, ka ngawari ake te haehae, engari mā te wai matao ka roa ake te ora. Kātahi ka whakahaere i ngā huringa poto kaua i ngā huringa auau, roa rānei, mā tēnei ka whakaiti i te tūponotanga o te whati o te muka. Ina mahi koe i tēnei, whakaitihia te tere o te huringa hurihuri mēnā ka taea – mā tēnei ka whakaiti ake i te waku. I te taha o ēnei tikanga, i whakaitihia te maturuturunga o te muka moroiti mā te 30%, e ai ki tētahi rangahau.
I a tātou e kōrero ana mō ngā tautuhinga o te mīhini horoi, karohia ngā huringa ngāwari. Tērā pea he rerekē tēnei ki tō whakaaro, engari he nui ake te wai e whakamahia ana i ngā huringa horoi kē atu hei ārai i te kiripaka – mā te nui ake o te ōwehenga wai ki te papanga ka nui ake te marere o te muka.
Hei whakamutunga, whakarērea rawatia te whakamaroke kakahu. E kore e taea te whakanui rawa i tēnei: Ka whakapotohia te roa o te ora o ngā rauemi e te wera, ā, ka nui ake te tūponotanga ka pakaru i raro i te kawenga e whai ake nei. Waimarie, ka tere te maroke o ngā kākahu hangai, nō reira whakairihia ki waho, ki runga rānei i te reera kaukau—ka penapena moni anō hoki mā te whakaiti i te whakamahinga o te whakamaroke kakahu.
Kia horoia, kia whakamarokehia hoki ō kākahu, kaua e whakahokia ki te mīhini horoi. He maha ngā kākahu kāore e hiahiatia kia horoia i muri i ia whakamahinga, nō reira whakahokia aua tarau poto, aua hāte rānei ki roto i te kāpata hei kakahu anō, hei kakahu rua rānei mēnā kāore e hongi pērā i te haunga kurī mākū i muri i te whakamahinga kotahi. Mēnā kotahi anake te wāhi paru, horoia ki te ringaringa kaua e tīmata ki te tākai.
Ka taea hoki e koe te whakamahi i ngā momo hua hei whakaiti i te marere o te muka moroiti. Kua hangaia e Guppyfriend he putea horoi kakahu i hangaia mō te kohikohi i ngā muka pakaru me ngā para kirihou moroiti, me te ārai i te pakaru o te muka i te pūtake mā te tiaki i ngā kākahu. Tāpirihia he mea hanga ki roto, herea te riipene, maka ki roto i te mīhini horoi, unuhia ki waho ka maka atu i ngā paru kirihou moroiti e piri ana ki ngā kokonga o te putea. Ahakoa ngā putea horoi kakahu noa ka āwhina ki te whakaiti i te waku, nō reira he kōwhiringa tēnei.
Ko tētahi atu kōwhiringa whai hua, whai hua hoki ko te tātari miro motuhake e piri ana ki te ngongo waikeri o te mīhini horoi, ā, kua whakamātauhia kia whakaiti i ngā kirihou moroiti tae atu ki te 80%. Engari kaua e tino kaha ki ēnei pōro horoi, e kīia ana ka mau ngā muka moroiti i roto i te horoinga: he iti noa iho ngā hua pai.
Mō ngā hopi horoi, he maha ngā waitohu rongonui kei roto he kirihou, tae atu ki ngā kāpūru watea e pakaru ana hei matūriki kirihou iti i roto i te mīhini horoi. Engari i roa te keri kia kitea ai ko ēhea ngā hopi horoi te take. Akohia me pēhea te mōhio mēnā he tino pai tō hopi horoi ki te taiao i mua i te whakakī anō i te toa, i te whakaaro rānei ki te hanga i tāu ake. Kātahi ka tiakina ō mea hangai mai i te rā i horoia ai e koe.
He kaituhi tautoko a Alisha McDarris mā Popular Science. He tangata e aroha ana ki te haereere, he tangata e aroha ana ki ngā mahi o waho, e aroha ana ia ki te whakaatu ki ōna hoa, ki tōna whānau, tae atu ki ngā tāngata tauhou me pēhea te noho haumaru me te whakapau i te wā ki waho. Ina kore ia e tuhituhi ana, ka kite koe i a ia e hikoi ana i te tuara, e hoe waka ana, e piki toka ana, e haereere ana rānei i te huarahi.
Wā tuku: Hakihea-20-2022