Human sentiment and the future of wildlife

Cooper, David E.

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“…Specifically, information enhances the visitors' knowledge of the natural area, and thus the need to protect it (Wilson and Tisdell, 2001), while watching lies in the intensity of interaction with the area, which is supposed to be the maximum at observation sites (Cooper, 1993;Ryan et al, 1999). The information center at Dadia reserve consists of an exhibition of notice boards presenting the ecology, geography, economy and management of the reserve, and of the projection of a video-tape giving information on raptors and on what visitors can watch at the observation site.…”

Section: The Textual Corpusmentioning

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Images of Nature by Tourism and Environmentalist Discourses in Visitors Books: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ecotourism

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Paraskevopoulos

2004

Discourse & Society

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This article offers qualitative insights into the way visitors to a Greek reserve negotiate the duality of ecotourism in visitors books. This is a neglected issue in general, and within ‘Ecocritical Discourse Analysis’ in particular. Using as ‘map’ a Content Analysis undertaken in a previous study, we now conduct a lexical analysis to two of the major discourses drawn for the shaping of images of the natural environment of the reserve (tourism and environmentalist discourses), in order to reveal the conceptual organization of such images. By also using the descriptive tool of ‘macro-speech acts’, images are positioned within a ‘tourism-environmentalism continuum’. The results of the analysis indicate that although in the visitors book of the information center environmentalist images dominate, in that from the observation site, tourism images prevail. Moreover, the two samples differ in the way they shape environmentalist images. In conclusion, with very few images being positioned at the middle of the continuum, the two social practices do not function in a complementary way, leading to a dualism rather than a duality of ecotourism.

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Section: The Textual Corpusmentioning

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Images of Nature by Tourism and Environmentalist Discourses in Visitors Books: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ecotourism

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Paraskevopoulos

2004

Discourse & Society

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“…Many of these efforts have taken an economic approach, emphasizing the willingness of persons to pay to observe nature or the immense value of the services provided by non-human species and ecosystems (but see [39,40]). Other efforts have taken a non-economic approach, emphasizing, for instance, ''existence value'' (i.e., the value to humans of the continued existence of things that may possess distinctive characteristics or symbolic importance) [40][41][42], which tends to rise with increasing rarity [43,44].…”

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“…If proponents of a group-based ethic accept this proposition, then they may be forced by circumstances (human population expansion) into the extreme position of demanding the preservation and/or re-creation of wilderness, where wildlife will be free from human interference as much as possible (see [41,65]). Achieving such an end will be difficult.…”

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Using an Ecological Ethics Framework to Make Decisions about the Relocation of Wildlife

McCoy

Berry

2008

Sci Eng Ethics

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Relocation is an increasingly prominent conservation tool for a variety of wildlife, but the technique also is controversial, even among conservation practitioners. An organized framework for addressing the moral dilemmas often accompanying conservation actions such as relocation has been lacking. Ecological ethics may provide such a framework and appears to be an important step forward in aiding ecological researchers and biodiversity managers to make difficult moral choices. A specific application of this framework can make the reasoning process more transparent and give more emphasis to the strong sentiments about non-human organisms held by many potential users. Providing an example of the application of the framework may also increase the appeal of the reasoning process to ecological researchers and biodiversity managers. Relocation as a conservation action can be accompanied by a variety of moral dilemmas that reflect the interconnection of values, ethical positions, and conservation decisions. A model that is designed to address moral dilemmas arising from relocation of humans provides/demonstrates/illustrates a possible way to apply the ecological ethics framework and to involve practicing conservationists in the overall decision-making process.

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The Insolent Fox: Human–Animal Relations with Protected Predators in Central-Southern Chile

Medina

2020

Anthrozoös

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Human sentiment and the future of wildlife

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Images of Nature by Tourism and Environmentalist Discourses in Visitors Books: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ecotourism

Images of Nature by Tourism and Environmentalist Discourses in Visitors Books: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ecotourism

Using an Ecological Ethics Framework to Make Decisions about the Relocation of Wildlife

The Insolent Fox: Human–Animal Relations with Protected Predators in Central-Southern Chile

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