Regi speaks with Skyler about ecology and the amazing amount of wildlife connected to each other in Baja California. We also talk about her personal experience working on a boat in Guadalupe and the controversy of shutting down tourism at this island.
Activist, expedition leader, wildlife lover, Regi Domingo tells us about the challenges of conserving wildlife in the Baha Peninsula. And once again the discussion of Guadalupe Island shutting down comes up, largley because Regi worked on one of the boats that had a fatal shark incident. Regi pushed for improved diving regulations and was fired for it.
A few quotes rom the interview:
"Everything is connected. The vaquita is now gone. We fought to save it, the warnings were out there that it was endangered, and now its gone. It’s sad in the sense of humans killing off an animal species, but we also need to think about the fact that the vaquita existed where it did for a reason. It wasn’t an accident. It had a purpose, a role, a niche in that local ecosystem, but now it no longer exists to fulfill that purpose."
“Where did we lose the education of learning how to care for our fellow earthlings and the earth itself?”
“Now we tell our trip guests when they see a hammerhead that they might be some of the last people to see them. “
“The white sharks are so charismatic that you get excited and even protective of them.”
Regina Domingo is the Executive Director and Founder of NakaweProject. She is also a dive instructor, sailor, conservationist, producer, photojournalist, campaigner, and passionate researcher behind the documentary Game Over Fishing.
Six years ago, she decided to devote her life to the ocean after a profound experience volunteering with Park Rangers on a world heritage site. She patrolled the waters of Cocos Island and Costa Rica for two months with the Park Rangers, protecting sharks from illegal shark fishing. Regina has said, "The oceans need us now more than ever and humans need to be infatuated with nature." She is currently living in Mexico, working with sharks, both dead and alive, in an attempt to understand what is happening to their decreasing population, all the while inspiring others to protect them.
Her dedication for the ocean has led her to become the founder, and executive director of Nakawe Project, a non-profit organization that dedicates its time and efforts to the protection and conservation of marine life around the globe.
As the director at Pelagic Safari, the career path she has chosen is ocean centered. She is also directing an Ecotourism platform (Pelagic Safari in Baja California Sur, Mexico) which introduces and engages people with the Pelagic life that surrounds Baja California. She is passionate that Ecotourism is the key to connecting people with the oceans, and the species that call the sea home. Part of her mission is to share the message, that if people grow an appreciation for the sea, positive changes will be made.
Growing up by the Mediterranean Sea, next to Barcelona, Spain; She has been surrounded by the ocean her entire life. With massive persistence and intense courage, she managed to gain access to places no one else has. Doing so has led her teammates to believe she is an unmatched researcher for documentary work. Regina has worked directly with government authorities, organizations, and different creative teams in numerous locations throughout the world. Her experience includes working in shark conservation with Randall Arauz of Pretoma for two years in Costa Rica. They collected and analyzed data that led to the protection of the Silky and Thresher Sharks in CoP17 CITES.
Her film experience includes being a fixer for the Rob Stewart film Sharkwater Extinction, Mission Blue with Kip Evans about the Shark fisheries and trade, for National Geographic Wild and for Pilgrim Media Group.
Her persistence never expires, and because of that, she never quits. Regina is always reaching to obtain the necessary information and footage required to allow the information to reach billions of people worldwide. The result being a change in the positive direction to work together for ocean conservation.
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