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New publication on wildlife tourism, economics and conservation

April 10th, 2013 by Ronda Green

New publication on wildlife tourism, economics and conservation

Emeritus Professor Clem Tisdell was one of our keynote speakers at the national wildlife tourism workshop held a Currumbin Wildlife sanctuary last year. He has now published a paper on the topic on which he spoke at our workshop:

Tisdell, C. 2012. Economic benefits, conservation and wildlife tourism. Acta Turistica 4:127-148

Part of the abstract reads:

“A way of maximising the economic contribution of nature-based tourism to regional and local communities is outlined. Several factors are identified that result in wildlife tourism contributing to nature conservation. This is followed by a discussion of the diversity of stake-holders in nature-based tourism and the economic challenges facing them.”

 

You may also be interested in further information linked from: http://wildlifetourism.org.au/discussions/value-of-wildlife-and-wildlife-tourism/

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Birdwatching tourism study

March 21st, 2013 by Ronda Green

birdwatchgirlBirdwatching tourism study

From Rochelle Steven

Share your views on Avitourism – Online Survey

Avitourism is an expanding recreational phenomenon that can potentially support the conservation of bird species globally. This research will capture the preferences of avitourists with respect to birds and bird habitats to enhance our knowledge of the features driving birdwatching. Findings are expected to increase our understanding of how avitourism can be developed and promoted in ideal locations as a conservation tool but also where management is needed to ensure sustainability of the industry.

An online survey of your birding experiences can be completed through by following this link;

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Marine turtle rehabilitation centre, Australia

August 19th, 2012 by Ronda Green

Turtle information centre, and a great combination of wildlife conservation, research, education and tourism

Jennie Gilbert and her husband run a large veterinary clinic in Cairns, and Jennie is also a researcher of marine turtles at James Cook University. In 2000, she and fellow marine biologist Paul Barnes started one of Australia’s largest  voluntary  turtle rehabilitation centres with  an attached  interpretation centre presently being built.

Scuba divers coming ashore on Fitzroy Island

I recently visited the turtle rehabilitation centre , on Fitzroy Island, near Cairns, Far North Queensland.

Fitzroy is a beautiful little continental island with fringing reef. Just over an hour’s ferry ride from Cairns, it includes rainforest walks, lovely beaches, mountainous terrain (it is essentially a mountain top with most of the rest of the mountain now covered by sea) and coral you can snorkel amongst just by walking out fro the beach. Not quite as diverse as the outer reef, there are still plenty of species of fish foraging amongst the corals, and I was especially thrilled when a unicorn fish passed close to me.

The turtle hospital is near the best snorkelling area, and when I visited had just two turtles in the tanks (I was told there were a few more at the Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre on the mainland). One – an olive Ridley turtle –  was very badly injured when first brought in  and recovery is taking while.

Green turtle (usually herbivorous) eating a squid at the Turtle Hospital, Fitzroy Island

The other, a green turtle, is doing very well and will probably be released fairly soon. Since green turtles are herbivorous, I was surprised to see her eating squid, but they apparently adapt very readily to that in captivity.

You can easily visit Fitzroy Island as a day-trip from Cairns, but even better you can stay overnight, either at the campground or the very attractive and comfortable Fitzroy Resort

The turtle information centre is due to open a little later this year: keep tuned for a report here from Jennie.

Further reading (on Jennie Gilbert, turtle research and turtle rehabilitation):

http://www.nailsma.org.au/news/20090706.html

http://www.zoominfo.com/#!search/profile/person?personId=1264094801&targetid=profile

Jennie Gilbert with a green turtle on Fitzroy Island. The missing piece of shell on her right hand side will never re-grow, but she has now recovered well from other injuries and is soon to be released )

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NEW RESEARCH FOR MANDURAH DOLPHINS

April 25th, 2012 by Ronda Green

NEW RESEARCH FOR MANDURAH DOLPHINS

(press release)

Murdoch University academic student undertaking a Honours Degree in Marine Science Mr James Raeside 24 of Coolbellup is focusing his thesis on Mandurah Dolphins.

With the deaths of six Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in the Swan-Canning Estuary in 2009 emphasised the need to better understand the ecology of dolphins within estuarine environments.

Bottle-nosed dolphins (photo Araucaria Ecotours)

Research has already been carried out in the Swan-Canning, Cockburn Sound and Bunbury confines.

Raeside has teamed up with Mandurah Cruises who have offered their vessels to him on a daily bases to carryout research and use them as a photographic platform which allows him the opportunity to get very close to them.

The studies will focus on developing a photo—identification catalogue of the dolphins found in the Mandurah Estuary and Murray and Serpentine river systems.

The collaboration with Mandurah Cruises and Mr Raeside’s research will have an end result of having identified and naming most of the mammals from markings on the dorsal fins but will be an opportunistic time to study the presence of any skin lesions that will access the dolphin’s population health.

Each dolphin sighting is recorded with time, location with GPS and number of dolphins present that will form part of the photo-identification data.

The research will be the base of subsequent studies of the dolphin population occurring in the Peel Region.

On average Mr Raeside sees approximately 8 dolphins per day which includes 4 calves, two have just recently been born.

When asked about the dolphins he has seen so far he stated they looked happy, healthy, large and productive.

 

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Economics of wildlife tourism and conservation

December 26th, 2011 by Ronda Green

Economics of wildlife tourism and conservation

Emeritus Professor Clem Tisdell of University of Queensland, is one of Australia’s most published authors on economics and a leading expert on the economics of wildlife tourism.  He will be one of the keynote speakers at our national workshop in May and will be staying on for discussion groups – and excellent opprtunity to thrash out some ideas and gain some valuable insights on the economic value of wildlife and how economics and ecological studies might combine for wildlife conservation.

See our interview with Professor Tisdell, and feel free to join in some discussions even now by adding comments below

 

 

 

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Additions to our wildlife tourism reseaerch literature

August 26th, 2011 by Ronda Green

New titles on our research literature page

Below are some recent updates to our Wildlife Tourism Bibliography page

Thanks to Michelle Plant for her assistance with this

Ballantyne, R., Packer, J. and Falk, J. (2011). “Visitors’ learning for environmental sustainability: Testing short and long term impacts of wildlife tourism experiences using structural equation modelling.” Tourism Management 32 (6): 1243-1252.

Ballantyne, R., Packer, J. and Sutherland, L. (2011). “Visitors’ memories of wildlife tourism: Implications for the design of powerful interpretive experiences.” Tourism Management 32 (4): 770-779.

Bhuiyan, M., Siwar, C., Ismail, S.M. et al (2011). “The role of home stay for ecotourism development in East Coast Economic Region.” American Journal of Applied Sciences 8 (6): 540-546.

Catlin, J. and Jones, R. (2010). “Whale shark tourism at Ningaloo Marine Park: A longitudinal study of wildlife tourism.” Tourism Management 31 (3): 386-394.

Catlin, J., Jones, R. and Jones, R. (2011). “Revisiting Duffus and Dearden’s wildlife tourism framework.” Biological Conservation 144 (5): 1537-1544.

Coglan, A., Fox, K.R., Prideaux, B. and Luck, M. (2009). “Successful interpretation in Great Barrier Reef Tourism: dive in or keep out of it?” Proceedings of CMT2009, the 6th International Congress on Coastal and Marine Tourism June, 2009, Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa: 47-60.

Hemson, G., Maclennan, S., Mills, G., Johnson, P. and Macdonald, D. (2009). “Community, lions, livestock and money: A spatial and social analysis of attitudes to wildlife and the conservation value of tourism in a human-carnivore conflict in Botswana.” Biological Conservation 142 (11): 2718-2725.

Higham, J. and Shelton, E. (2011). “Tourism and wildlife habituation: Reduced population fitness or cessation of impact?” Tourism Management 32 (6): 1290-1298.

Knight, J. (2010). “The ready-to-view wild monkey: The Convenience Principle in Japanese Wildlife Tourism.” Annals of Tourism Research 37 (3): 744-762.

Liggett, D., McIntosh, A., Thompson, A., Gilbert, N. and Storey, R. (2011). “From frozen continent to tourism hotspot? Five decades of Antarctic tourism development and management, and a glimpse into the future.” Tourism Management 32 (2): 357-366.

Lovelock, B. (ed) (2008). “Tourism and The Consumption of Wildlife. Hunting. Shooting and Fishing.” Routledge, London.

Maljkovi, A. and Côté, I. (2011). “Effects of tourism-related provisioning on the trophic signatures and movement patterns of an apex predator, the Caribbean reef shark.” Biological Conservation 144 (2): 859-865.

Maréchal, L., Semple, S., Majolo, B., Qarro, M., Heistermann, M. and MacLarnon, A. (2011). “Impacts of tourism on anxiety and physiological stress levels in wild male Barbary macaques.” Biological Conservation 144 (9); 2188-2193.

Rodger, K., Moore, S. A. & Newsome, D. (2009). “Wildlife Tourism, Science and Actor Network Theory.” Annals of Tourism Research 36 (4): 658-664.

Scarpa, R., Notaro, S., Louviere, J. and Raffaelli, R. (2011). “Exploring scale efforts of best/worst rank ordered choice data to estimate benefits of tourism in alpine grazing commons.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 93 (3): 813-828.

Sebele, L. (2010). “Community-based tourism ventures, benefits and challenges: Khama Rhino Sanctuary Trust, Central District, Botswana.” Tourism Management 31 (1): 136-146.

Semeniuk, C., Haider, W., Cooper, A. and Rothley, K. (2010). “A linked model of animal ecology and human behaviour for the management of wildlife tourism.” Ecological Modelling 221 (22): 2699-2713.

Semeniuk, C., Bourgeon, S., Smith, S. and Rothley, K. (2009). “Hematological differences between stingrays at tourist and non-visited sites suggest physiological costs of wildlife tourism.” Biological Conservation 142 (8): 1818-1829.

Stoeckl, N., Birtles, A., Farr, M., Mangott, A., Curnock, M. and Valentine, P. (2010). “Live-aboard dive boats in the Great Barrier Reef: regional economic impact and the relative values of their target marine species.” Tourism Economics 16 (4): 995-1018.

Taplin, R. (In Press). “Competitive importance-performance analysis of an Australian wildlife park.” Tourism Management .

Wolf, I. and Croft, D. (2010). “Minimizing disturbance to wildlife by tourists approaching on foot or in a car: A study of kangaroos in the Australian rangelands.” Applied Animal Behaviour Science 126 (1-2): 75-84.

Yeh ChienMu, Hu HanNing, Tsai ShuHsien et al (2011). “A conceptual model of knowledge sharing and market orientation in the tourism sector.” American Journal of Applied Sciences 8 (4):343-347.

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