Word: ecotourist
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...Tarkine that have already been clear-cut and defoliated. The contrast could not be more horrifying. Its end may not come as quickly?or be as inevitable?as that of the aborigines who once roamed it, but the Tarkine is evidently fighting for its future. Every paying ecotourist is a foot soldier in the cause...
ECOTOURISM For environmentalists, ecotourism is a double-edged sword. It can educate people about the need for wilderness, but it can also introduce humans into remote, fragile ecosystems where they would not otherwise go. Some of the better-run ecotourist ventures have mastered low-impact tours, using income from the visitors to keep certain areas pristine. Programme for Belize, a nonprofit group, has bought 260,000 acres of forest in northwestern Belize--about 4% of the country's total land area--that had been destined for logging. Half of the area is now a reserve, surrounded by a buffer zone...
...place at the "blue-green" end of the environmentalist spectrum, where even nature has an intrinsic economic value. "Ecotourism," says Duffy, becomes a "buzzword that assists businesses in marketing their products." In the global tourism industry, "cultures and societies become commodities to be consumed by an external audience." Ecotourists create "a huge economic, environmental and social impact merely by arriving in a developing country," Duffy points out. In their "self-indulgence," she adds, they are little different from conventional tourists; they too are "powerless to minimize the impact they have" on a country and "given the chance, they would...
...project, however, is the joining of South Africa's famous 20,000-sq-km Kruger Park with Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park and a huge big-game reserve in Mozambique. Organizers say the park, known as the gkg (Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou), could become one of the planet's top ecotourist destinations. The World Bank, usaid and the German Development Bank are helping pay for research, infrastructure and the development of villages on or near the transnational game corridors where the animals will roam...
...Canada, where so much wilderness still provides a home to hundreds of species of birds and other animals, the ecotourist can fly north to watch the polar bears, drive a few hours from Toronto to listen to wolves, or skim over dark forests and mist-swathed mountains in a tiny floatplane, as I did to reach Knight Inlet. The journey is one of the most satisfying aspects of an adventure that will make even a jaded world traveler feel like a child whose picture book has come to life...