| WILDLIFE AUSTRALIA Magazine - Winter 2003 |
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Nature Based Tourism
Is nature-based tourism the new economic approach to protecting our natural environment or another load on already overburdened ecosystems?
How should it be managed and regulated?
The discussions continue. but for environmentalists always on the lookout to raise awareness and change attitudes, the ‘aha! opportunities offered by teachable moments in nature-based tourism should not be ignored. |
| FEATURES |
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| Nature-based tourism — productive or destructive for the environment? |
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 By Dr Karen Higginbottom
How big is nature-based tourism?
An estimated $1000 billion a year worldwide.
What’s in it for nature? Read on...
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| Where the wild things are |
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 By Clare Peddie
As tourists request closer, more meaningful wildlife encounters, tour operators are coming up with some novel approaches.
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| Nature Based Tourism in practice |
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- Fraser Island - You CAN take it with you, but please don't by Saren Starbridge
- Fraser Island - Have a GREAT WALK and a safe journey: Interview with Anthony Thomas
- Sunshine Coast - Surfing for wildlife: the Faunawatch story by Keith Hickman
- Brisbane River - Fly out by Ron Hohenhaus
- Tonga - Suspended in bliss by Annah Evington
- Crows Nest - Learning to share by Nigel Kimball
- Daintree - Shaken, net stirred by Julie Olsen
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| Penguins in the marketplace |
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 By David A Everitt
When it comes to sales, penguins are very
cool, although selling cigarettes didn’t save
the 'northern penguin'. |
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| LET’S GO — returning rehabilitated native animals to the wild |
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 By Lee K. Curtis
Hand-reared as infants, these orphaned flying
foxes need some acclimatisation to help
them succeed as adults in the wild.
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| Wildlife Australia CyberJungle |
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| Also in this edition |
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Eco-Media, Comment, City Animal, Scratchings and Rustlings, Books Reviews, Winter Skies, Wildside, Young and Wild, WPSQ in Action, Take Only Pictures, Nature Watch, Swamp Cartoon and our regular environmental crossword.
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