The Potential, Development and Ecological Impact of Ecotourism in Kibale National Park, Uganda

Obua, J.

doi:10.1006/jema.1996.0092

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“…Nature-based tourism can be more flexibly defined as any type of tourism that has as its primary purpose the viewing and/or enjoyment of nature, including hiking, birdwatching, safaris, etc. While the term ecotourism implies ecologically friendly tourism, such is not always the case(Obua, 1997;Isaacs, 2000), and confusion exists as to its exact meaning.…”

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Biodiversity and nature-based tourism at forest reserves in Uganda

Naidoo

Adamowicz²

2005

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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The benefits of nature-based tourism to biodiversity conservation are often presumed but rarely quantified. The relative value placed on attributes of nature parks is unknown, as is the contribution of biodiversity to tourists' willingness to visit a particular protected area. We surveyed tourists and foreign residents in Uganda to determine how preferences for particular protected areas are formed. We evaluated tourists' demand for elevated biodiversity levels (increased numbers of bird species seen), relative to other protected areas attributes. As the number of bird species increased, tourists demonstrated increased willingness to visit a protected area, independently of all other factors. We used these results to evaluate a revenue-maximizing park management strategy, and consider how revenues from nature-based tourism compare with those from local agricultural land-uses.

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Biodiversity and nature-based tourism at forest reserves in Uganda

Naidoo

Adamowicz²

2005

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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“…Wildlife tourism involving provisioning or habituation of wild animals has drawn public attention and created controversy, especially with nonhuman primates [Wallis and Lee, 1999;Hsu et al, 2009]. Some researchers suggest that inappropriate and unregulated non-human primate tourism has resulted in harmful consequences such as habitat disturbance and destruction, a high risk of infectious disease transmission, abnormal hormone or metabolic levels, the alteration of natural behaviours, and ultimately a negative effect on social structure, reproduction, and development [Obua, 1997;Jones-Engel et al, 2005;Hsu et al, 2009;Maréchal et al, 2011;McKinney, 2014;Shutt, 2014;Maréchal et al, 2016].…”

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Behavioural Responses of Yunnan Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) to Tourists in a Provisioned Monkey Group in Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve

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Bao-ping²,

Li³

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The appearance of tourists brings about behavioural changes in some primates. Primate behavioural responses to human activities can reflect their survival strategy. Little is known about how the behaviour of Rhinopithecus bieti changes in the presence of tourists. Here we provide the first detailed description of interactions between a provisioned group of R. bieti and tourists at Xiangguqing in Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve from July 2012 to June 2013. We found that R. bieti had different response rates to the 5 most common human actions (shout, photograph, offer food, clap, and wave). Results indicated that R. bieti expresses 10 behavioural reactions (threat, escape, vigilance, warning, panic, alliance, attack, foraging, approach, and staring) to tourists' actions. On the whole, most of the monkeys' responses were unfriendly or hostile; a small number were neutral and affiliative. Behavioural responses were also significantly different among the different age/sex classes. Immature individuals engaged in more affiliative behaviours than adult individuals, and adult males tended towards more hostile behaviours. The behaviour of R. bieti towards tourists showed both tension and adaptability. Scientific management of provisioned monkey groups and strict regulation of tourist behaviour is needed in order to protect the animals from the negative effects of tourism-related disturbance.

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“…The relationship between ecotourism and eco-environmental protection has been studied intensively [9][10][11][12][13]. Joseph Obua [14] analyzed the impacts of ecotourism development on the local ecological environment in Cherbel National Park in Uganda. Ecotourism helps to ease environmental pressures generated by traditional tourism.…”

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Ecotourism Environmental Protection Measures and Their Effects on Protected Areas in China

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Ecological and environmental protection is the core content of ecotourism development. A quantitative evaluation of the effects of ecotourism environmental protection (hereinafter referred to as EEP) measures on protected areas is conducive to a deeper understanding of the key issues related to ecotourism development in China, thus providing the theoretical basis for formulating the relevant national policies of sustainable ecotourism development in China. This paper first discusses the evaluation index system and then establishes an index evaluation model of EEP measures and their effects on protected areas. Using surveys of more than 1110 protected areas in 27 provinces (autonomous regions or municipalities), we evaluated the EEP measures and their effects from a quantitative and spatial perspective. The completeness of EEP measures for Chinese protected areas was moderately effective, and the implementation status of the protection measures varied with the protection region. The effectiveness of EEP measures in different provinces and regions showed significant differences. The effectiveness decreased from east to west. The evaluation index values of the environmental protection measures displayed a high correlation with the effects of environmental protection on protected areas. The ecological protection measures should be further improved and strengthened according to their regional differences during ecotourism development.

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The Potential, Development and Ecological Impact of Ecotourism in Kibale National Park, Uganda

Cited by 40 publications

References 8 publications

Biodiversity and nature-based tourism at forest reserves in Uganda

Biodiversity and nature-based tourism at forest reserves in Uganda

Behavioural Responses of Yunnan Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) to Tourists in a Provisioned Monkey Group in Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve

Ecotourism Environmental Protection Measures and Their Effects on Protected Areas in China

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