The paper aims to provide a description of the vision and present practices of ecotourism.
Promotion of local livelihoods through ecotourism has been widely considered as an …

Outdoor recreation is typically assumed to be compatible with biodiversity conservation and
is permitted in most protected areas worldwide. However, increasing numbers of studies are …

Conservation physiology proposes that measures of physiological stress (glucocorticoid
levels) can be used to assess the status and future fate of natural populations. Increases in …

Quantifying and map** cultural ecosystem services is complex because of their
intangibility. Data from social media, such as geo-tagged photographs, have been proposed …

The ecotourism literature is focused on market segmentation, ecological impacts of wildlife
viewing, and community-based ecotourism, but there has been minimal attention to critical …

Given its extensive volume and reach, social media has the potential to widely spread
conservation messaging and be a powerful tool to mobilize social change for conserving …

Conservation biologists increasingly face the need to provide legislators, courts and
conservation managers with data on causal mechanisms underlying conservation problems …

Studies on the effects of anthropogenic activity on wildlife aim to provide a sound scientific
basis for management. However, misinterpretation of the theoretical basis for these studies …

Nature based recreation such as wildlife viewing, hiking, running, cycling, canoeing, horse
riding and dog walking can have negative environmental effects. A review of the recreation …

Over the past few decades, there has been a steep increase in the number of conservation-
related field studies that measure glucocorticoid hormones (corticosterone or cortisol) as a …