Shark-diving tourism as a financing mechanism for shark conservation strategies in Malaysia

Vianna, Gabriel M. S.; Meekan, Mark G.; Rogers, Abbie A.; Kragt, Marit; Alin, James M.; Zimmerhackel, Johanna S.

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2018.05.008

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“…One strategy that can generate resources to fund activities for greater forest connectivity, engage local communities towards conservation through economic incentives and encourage governments to create and manage corridors is ecotourism 71 , 72 . As nature conservation is mostly an unprofitable activity 73 , tourism is one of the few lucrative activities that can generate financing for conservation 74 – 76 .…”

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Tropical deforestation induces thresholds of reproductive viability and habitat suitability in Earth’s largest eagles

Miranda

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Carvalho‐Rocha

et al. 2021

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Apex predators are threatened globally, and their local extinctions are often driven by failures in sustaining prey acquisition under contexts of severe prey scarcity. The harpy eagle Harpia harpyja is Earth’s largest eagle and the apex aerial predator of Amazonian forests, but no previous study has examined the impact of forest loss on their feeding ecology. We monitored 16 active harpy eagle nests embedded within landscapes that had experienced 0 to 85% of forest loss, and identified 306 captured prey items. Harpy eagles could not switch to open-habitat prey in deforested habitats, and retained a diet based on canopy vertebrates even in deforested landscapes. Feeding rates decreased with forest loss, with three fledged individuals dying of starvation in landscapes that succumbed to 50–70% deforestation. Because landscapes deforested by > 70% supported no nests, and eaglets could not be provisioned to independence within landscapes > 50% forest loss, we established a 50% forest cover threshold for the reproductive viability of harpy eagle pairs. Our scaling-up estimate indicates that 35% of the entire 428,800-km2 Amazonian ‘Arc of Deforestation’ study region cannot support breeding harpy eagle populations. Our results suggest that restoring harpy eagle population viability within highly fragmented forest landscapes critically depends on decisive forest conservation action.

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Tropical deforestation induces thresholds of reproductive viability and habitat suitability in Earth’s largest eagles

Miranda

Peres

Carvalho‐Rocha

et al. 2021

Sci Rep

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“…Findings from several other studieswere comparable with the results of this study within the perspective of revenue per tourist's calculation. Vianna et al (2018) recorded that in 2012 the shark diving receipt in Semporna, Sabah accumulated an approximate of USD9.8 million from the sector. In comparison with this study recreational sector receiptof RM35.087 million, the shark diving estimated receipt was RM30.280 million (sans inflation) after accounting for foreign exchange rate.Additionally, tourism receipt per tourist for Langkawi Island were RM1547.00 for the year 2015 (LADA, 2019).…”

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Accounting for Environmental Sustainability of the Tourism Industry: The Case of Perhentian Island

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2021

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The study is undertaken to account and measure externalities that have crossed beyond its environmental limit due totourism activities. These measurements later integrated into thetourism revenue estimates.Hence, the study’s objectives include estimating tourism revenue, quantifyingand monetizing environmental degradations and presenting the Environmentally Sustainable Tourism Revenue (ESTR) statement.Visitors spending served as proxies to tourism revenue estimates. Data were collected from 923 tourists of Perhentian Island and analysed using two-steps decision tree analysis through Chi-Square Automatic Interaction Detection (CHAID) procedure in SPSS 22.0 software. The costs of the environment were measured loosely based on the concept of ecological footprint, tourism carrying capacity, and economic valuation techniques.The findings suggest that the cost of the environment which comprised of overshoot of environmental resources, overcapacity of environmental services and overuse of environmental asset were RM5,446,563.00, RM506,576.00 and RM1,612,160.94 – RM3,626,722, respectively.Perhentian Islands’ total cost of degradation was recorded at RM9,579,861.00 (upper limit) with net tourism revenue of RM124,724,324.00. The implication of the study suggests that Perhentian Islands tourism externalities has exceeded between5.5% to 7.1% of its environmental limit and therefore, tourism activities on the islands incline towards unsustainability. Several steps need to be taken to rectifythe environmental issues identified in the study to ensure the sustainability of the islands.

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“…Based on the literature we explored, ecologically-sustainable tourism is weakly linked to environmental conservation. In this context, the virtuous economic exploitation of iconic animals, such as sharks, is becoming a key asset of developing economies (see, e.g., [73][74][75]), and this practice may provide a link between management and conservation, within the framework of sustainable tourism [76]. As for aquaculture, the isolation of this sector is due to the fact that the pertinent investigations are more focused on the productive processes, and the ecological and economic sustainability are not key issues.…”

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Combining Marine Ecology and Economy to Roadmap the Integrated Coastal Management: A Systematic Literature Review

2019

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Integrated coastal management (ICM) relies on the inclusion of economic issues within marine ecology. To assess the progress of this integration, we applied topic modelling and network analysis to explore the pertinent literature (583 Isi-WoS, and 5459 Scopus papers). We classified the topics of interest (i.e., concepts, approaches, and sectors) that combined ecological and economic issues within marine science, we aggregated these topics in fields pertinent to ICM, and tracked the knowledge-exchange between these fields by using an information-flow network. Main findings were: (i) the high trans-disciplinary fashion of studies about marine protection and of those about commercial fisheries, (ii) the weak interaction between studies focusing on potential biohazards and those about environmental management, (iii) the isolation, in the overall information-flow, of studies about ecotourism and aquaculture. We included in a roadmap all the integration routes we detected within ICM, based on the combination of ecological and economic issues. We conclude that, to improve integration, ICM should: (i) Exploit marine protection as a bridge between ecological and economic concepts and approaches, and between maritime economy sectors, (ii) employ systems ecology to pursue trans-disciplinary investigations, (iii) complement systems ecology with citizen science by means of inclusive economic initiatives, such as ecotourism.

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Shark-diving tourism as a financing mechanism for shark conservation strategies in Malaysia

Cited by 48 publications

References 24 publications

Tropical deforestation induces thresholds of reproductive viability and habitat suitability in Earth’s largest eagles

Tropical deforestation induces thresholds of reproductive viability and habitat suitability in Earth’s largest eagles

Accounting for Environmental Sustainability of the Tourism Industry: The Case of Perhentian Island

Combining Marine Ecology and Economy to Roadmap the Integrated Coastal Management: A Systematic Literature Review

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