Ecotourism

Executive summary: INTRODUCTION: This report discusses the effects of greenhouse gases on New Zealand through tourism and the actions that the NZ Government has taken to protect the environment. Nowadays, greenhouse is become a serious issue for tourist countries. New Zealand is trying to take care of it. The number of tourist is increase dramatically and because of it the amount of greenhouse gases is increased.  Greenhouse Gases: Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse…

Essay 5: The Amazon and its Impacts In order to understand the importance of the Amazon River, we need to understand that it is so much more than just another flowing body of water. The health of the planet depends on the Amazon making it one of the most valuable places in the world. The river and the basin that it has created and travels, effects a huge body of vegetation, people, and animals. The Amazon benefits a new and evolving culture, allows continuing diversity in people,…

Balaenoptera musculus ( The blue whale) The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It has a heart the size of a VW beetle. The blue whale is at the top of the food chain. Climate change, habitat loss, and ship strikes are all threats to its survival. Pan Troglodytes (Chimpanzee) The chimpanzee is the human’s closest cousin. They have already disappeared completely from four countries. Poaching and disease are two very big threats. Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis) Black Rhinos are…

should be used for entertainment. The killer whales bring in a load of money and people who work at places like SeaWorld and Dutch Wonderland might lose their jobs if the killer whales are let back into the deep-sea. (National Geographic) (Journal of Ecotourism) Fifty-six captive orcas in the world lure over five hundred visitors every day for each show in marine parks around the world. This…

explored our neighborhood together. After reading through the powerpoint and the assignment on microadventures and liminality, I realized that our experience met the criteria for understanding how our choices of food and transportation contributed to ecotourism, how our congruent travel personalities contributed to engaging in activities that met everyone’s needs and wants in the moment, and to unanimously experience a moment of escape from responsibility and cultural norms. Before beginning our…

Taking a sustainable vacation is challenging. If you want your destination to encompass ecotourism principles and be environmentally responsible, you will want to find experiences that involve the local community. For example, an African wilderness experience should involve local guides who have a stake in protecting the biodiversity and the natural environment. Africa, especially South Africa and Botswana, are popular destinations because both counties have opportunities to experience the…

Prize Hunting has been a big dispute whether it is ethical or unethical. Animals live in our environment and help the ecosystem,yet animals are hunted everyday. We do this for our needs;food, clothes, and just for sport. Even with the mass killings of animals. They still manage to live in our environment. Many claim that killing animals is inhumane and cruel,but in certain ways, it’s not. So is hunting animals causing them to go extinct? The answer to that is no. Prize Hunting is different…

Heaven's doors is a place localized in the highest place of Guatemala, this place is characterized by its great landscape and its very cold climate. Heaven´s doors is at a height of 4000 meters above sea level conformed by a Guatemalan pine (Abies guatemalensis) forest (Soto, 2001). In the summer this place is very visited by many tourists from different countries because is when they can see a great landscape. There are two ways to get there, the firs are through a dirt road in bad conditions…

The proposed Great Forest National Park is an area of mostly unprotected forest located in Victoria. The GFNP proposal will add 355,000 hectares of protected forests to the 170,000 hectares of protected areas in the Central Highlands. The proposed park is made up of current State Forest, Special Protection Zones and existing Parks and Reserves as seen in figure 12 and 14. The area is home to large ash forests, rainforest and vine thickets, eucalyptus tall open and open forests and woodlands.…

ECOTOURISM AND CULTURE IN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Cultural Practices These were the entities that were embedded in the people’s way of life such that there practice was well understood by the community members; generations through generation. Examples include: Shrines and sacred groves: These Certain trees and groves that were considered sacred thus set aside as special places/ sites for offering sacrifices to the gods and spirits. Prayers were also conducted here. For example, Mugumo tree…