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

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  • Conservation
  • locals find work as tour guides and discover that their jobs depend on local conservation efforts
  • communities may work harder to protect those resource
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  • natural resources as sources of tourist income
  • Craftspeople, innkeepers and restaurateurs all provide services
  • 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.
  • Government Funding
  • 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
  • Ness T on 05 Jun 12
     
    very detailed site on the the benefits of ecotourism (many point of views; conservation, government funding, local business, cultural exchange)
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Benefits of Ecotourism-Advantages and Disadvantages for Ecotourism - 0 views

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  • 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.
  • Ness T on 05 Jun 12
     
    Mostly Positive (and some negative) sides of Eco-Tourism, very basic, clear, short, to the point website.
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Benefits - 0 views

www.untamedpath.com/...benefits.html ecotoursim rainforest sustainable amazon development Eco-Tour benefits
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  • natural attractions
  • advancing social, economic, and environmental objectives in developing countrie
  • ew opportunities for small-enterprise investment and employment
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  • protecting their biological resources.
  • Problem
  • enterprise with potential positive contributions to the conservation of endangered biological resources.
  • raising appreciation for biological resources
  • Ecotourism enterprises tour agencies and guide services, lodges and private reserves as well as such satellite activities as crafts industries and transportation and food services, also generate revenues and foreign exchange
  • Governments
  • income in operating and protecting natural habitats.
  • raising local awareness about the value of biological resources, increasing local participation in the benefits of biodiversity conservation
  • better conservation practices by developing country populations
  • Ness T on 05 Jun 12
     
    This source tells the different benefits of Eco-Tourism and also included is a little bit of history and also some facts, examples.
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http://www.ifad.org/pub/factsheet/ip/e.pdf - 0 views

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      shubha ghogar on 05 Jun 12
       
      There were more than 370 million  indigenous people in 70 countries and before they use to be more. Indigenous people play a crucial role managing natural resources.
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Indigenous Quotes - BrainyQuote - 0 views

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      shubha ghogar on 05 Jun 12
       
      This is a really good quote, it saying that, there are not quick fixes when indigenous people are heading to poverty and it going to become a social disaster.
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AMAZON WATCH » Is Brazil Destroying The Amazon For Energy? - 0 views

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  • Brazil's first woman president, Dilma Rousseff wants to eliminate more than 86,000 hectares of protected areas in the Amazon
  • The immediate reason? To make way for at least two large hydroelectric dams being worked out on paper, including the Tapajos project – an 8,000 megawatt power station the government would like to see built on the border of Para and Amazonas states.
  • The (Brazilian) President is backtracking on Brazil's environmental commitments, and will use any means necessary to push through an agenda of expensive mega-infrastructure projects in the Amazon
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    The perspective of the presidents
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Rainforest furniture - 0 views

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    By SYLVIA WESTALL Love your new dining room table ... but did you ask the salesman whether it's made from chopped up rainforest trees? A growing number of shoppers are doing just that when buying furniture because of concerns about the effects of shrinking rainforests on global warming and the extinction of rare species of flora and fauna that inhabit these forests.
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RAINFOREST LUMBER AND TIMBER AND PAPER COMPANIES - World Topics | Facts and Details - 1 views

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    RAINFOREST LUMBER Tropical rainforests supply about one fifth of the world's industrial lumber. Logging companies claim that most of their logging is selective rather than clear cutting and that only 5 to 7 percent of wood taken from tropical forests is exported.
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Benefits of deforestation - 1 views

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  • tharin on 05 Jun 12
     
    Whenever people talk about deforestation, usually the things that spring to mind are negative thoughts brought on mostly by media hypes and environmentalist drives. People think about global warming, depletion of natural resources, and the casual extinction of indigenous fauna and flora. Yet people don't seem to realize that there are actually quite a few benefits of deforestation.
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People of the Amazon | Greenpeace International - 0 views

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  • The Brazilian Amazon alone is home to 20 million people including 400 different indigenous groups and the future of the Amazon depends on the future of those that call the forest home.
  • It provides almost everything from food and shelter to tools and medicines, as well as playing a crucial role in people's spiritual and cultural life.
  • use 32 plant species in the construction of hunting equipment alone. Each plant has a specific role according to its physical and chemical properties.
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  • As logging companies move in, indigenous people are losing their traditional territory. Some indigenous people, such as the Deni living in a remote area of Brazil's Amazonas state, are working not only to protect their culture, but the forest and the diversity of life upon which they depend.
  • Manaus is the commercial centre of the Amazon region with a population of almost two million.
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    looks cool ANGUS
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Causes and Effects of Deforestation - 0 views

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  • tharin on 05 Jun 12
     
    Trees are one of the most important aspects of the planet we live in. Trees are vitally important to the environment, animals, and of course for us humans. They are important for the climate of the Earth, as they act as filters of carbon dioxide.
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Rainforest Concern - Why are they being destroyed? - 0 views

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  • tharin on 05 Jun 12
     
    Why are they being destroyed? In the past 50 years much of the rainforest in Africa and Asia has been destroyed. Large areas of rainforest are being cut down, often in order to remove just a few logs, and rainforest is being destroyed at double the rate of all previous estimates.
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Avoiding Rainforest Wood - 0 views

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  • tharin on 05 Jun 12
     
    Rainforest Wood Avoiding Unsustainable. Rainforest Wood Rainforest Relief has been focused on reducing the imports of tropical woods into the US since we started the group in 1989. We have grown to become the leading US organization working to prevent the use of tropical hardwoods by US governments, corporations and individuals.
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Amazon Rainforest Products - 0 views

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    Amazon Rainforest Products There are many different products from the Amazon rainforest. Following are some important products and a brief explanation about them.
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New study debunks myths about vulnerability of Amazon rain forests to drought - 0 views

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    Something about science
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Impacts of the Belo Monte Dam | The Rainforest Foundation - 0 views

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  • phdinawesomeness on 04 Jun 12
     
    This site contains interesting facts specifically about the Belo Monte Dam - Xingu river, Amazon.
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