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Ness T

What Are the Benefits of Ecotourism for Local Communities? | National Geographic - 0 views

  • Conservation
  • communities may work harder to protect those resource
  • locals find work as tour guides and discover that their jobs depend on local conservation efforts
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  • natural resources as sources of tourist income
  • Government Funding
  • seeks to maintain it
  • creation of several national parks and reserves
  • funds to maintain their parks and keep hunters, poachers and loggers out of them.
  • Craftspeople, innkeepers and restaurateurs all provide services
  • range of local businesses benefit
  • ecotourism has boosted an economy, people stop cutting trees because they are simply too busy.
  • people with more education were less likely to be environmentally destructive. In
  • Ecotourists meeting people who live more closely with nature may learn to live more simply themselves
  • bility to pursue more education of their own,
  • better understanding of world issues
  • cultural exchange
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    very detailed site on the the benefits of ecotourism (many point of views; conservation, government funding, local business, cultural exchange)
Eliza Ward

Ecotourism - Benefits communities aswell as the Rain forest - 2 views

  • makes a real difference to the quality of life for local people
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    There are many articles about how Eco Tourism benefits the rainforest and this is some information on how it ALSO benefits communities that live in it or around it.
Eliza Ward

Ecotourism - Helping Communities - 1 views

  • can generate enough income to raise the living standard of a whole community of 70 families.
shubha ghogar

International Day of the World's Indigenous People, 9 August - 0 views

  • This theme highlights the need for preservation and revitalization of indigenous cultures, including their art and intellectual property.  It can also be used to showcase indigenous artists and cooperatives or businesses who are taking inspiration from indigenous peoples' customs and the indigenous communities who may have participated or benefited from this.
  • It is also a reminder of the responsibility of individuals as consumers, to understand that there is a story and a personal experience behind every piece of cloth, textile or artwork from an indigenous individual or community.  
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    Indigenous people
mikitsujiyama

Sky Rainforest Rescue - 0 views

  • environmental importance of the world’s vast tropical rainforests is well known – both
  • Home » What we do » Safeguarding the natural world » Forests » Forests where we work » Amazon » Sky Rainforest Rescue Sky Rainforest Rescue Help WWF and Sky save a billion trees in the Amazon WWF has joined forces with Sky for an exciting campaign to help protect part of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Our target is to safeguard a billion trees, covering an area about the size of Belgium. Why we’re involved T
  • in terms of species diversity and for regulating the global climate.  Rainforests are also a crucial source of lots of products we use and benefit from every day, including cocoa, nuts, fruit, timber and many medicines. But deforestation from activities like illegal logging, clearance for cattle ranching and development of roads threatens the Amazon. Today an area the size of three football pitches is destroyed every minute. Sky Rainforest Rescue is based in the state of Acre in western Brazil where we are pioneering a new initiative by working with local communities – including rubber tappers and farmers – to help make it more profitable to keep trees standing than to clear forest.
Eliza Ward

Ecotourism - What they do to make a difference (in Peru) - 0 views

  • Our expeditions finance Amazon conservation and research stations, give access and funding to students, and support medical, agro-forestry, and sustainable community development work in Peru.
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      How Eco-Tourism is making a difference
  • News: Oct 2011 - Many thanks to Karl Switak for his recent report on a herpetolgy study trip to Peru with us in January 2011. Check out "Herp Hunting in the Amazon"; pages 32-45 in the Sep 2011 issue of Reptiles magazine. Thanks Karl!
Ness T

Benefits of Ecotourism-Advantages and Disadvantages for Ecotourism - 0 views

  • here are many more advantages of ecotourism than disadvantages
  • if done right, the goals of ecotourism are to help the environment, preserve natural resources as well as help the local communities and economies.
  • to make a lot of money from tourists
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  • seeking environmentally friendly vacations
  • friendly activities
  • preserve nature, wildlife, species and earth's natural resources as well as help local people with access to civilization and education.
  • if a country is prime for ecotourism, the money could be used to preserve the environment in that country so that the natural resources would last longer.
  • benefit from the growth in their economy
  • no longer
  • live poorly
  • the locals rarely benefit from the growth of their economy
  • nvestors and foreign corporations do.
  • environment and natural resources rarely get preserved because they are worth more in a theme park attracting ecotourists.
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    Mostly Positive (and some negative) sides of Eco-Tourism, very basic, clear, short, to the point website.
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