Ecotourism as a tool for Biodiversity conservation
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Ecotourism as a tool for Biodiversity
conservation
Lusine Aghajanyan“Young Biologists Associatio”@ NGO
“Ecotour” LLC
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Ecotourism is a responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people. Its purposes are
o to educate the traveler
o to provide funds for ecological conservation
o to directly benefit the economic development and political empowerment of local communities (Boo, 1992)
o to foster respect for different cultures and for human right (Honey, 1999)
https://tpp.ac.nz/study-options/eco-tourism/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ldQ0Bm_a0
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Conservational EcotourismEcotourism is conservational, when the economical benefits of it are lead to create a protected area, migration corridor, cleaning the are from trash, etc.
Non-conservational Ecotourism Ecotourism is non-conservational, when the economical benefits of it are lead only to local community support and education.
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Highly successful ecotourism can support biodiversity conservation by influencing national policy.
Good examples for that are:
Ecuador (resisted efforts of government to start an oil exploration in a biodiversity rich area),
Mozambique (establishment of large conservational areas as a key element of it’s tourism development),
Israel (resisted installation of wind turbines in the are of the bird migration bottleneck - Eilat)
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Education
EcoTourism
Tourist
Locals Motivation to:• Produce local brand food• Solve accommodation problems• Start to care about environment• Study languages/become guides • Study about surrounding nature
Gains knowledge about area specificities, culture and food
Governmental programs
• Trail building• Development of protected areas• Conservation programs and researches
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Community based ecotourism (CBET) – biodiversity must pay for itself by generating economic benefits, particularly for local people.
There is a huge support from international organizations to provide CBET culture in developing countries.
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The idea is that the local community should care about surrounding
environment
The attraction is
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Tourist - Local
Two way track
Two way education
Two way benefits
Solution
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Israel150 protected areas
Armenia33 protected areas
20.770 km²29.743 km²
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o Absence or lack of trails
o Garbage recycling
o Public toilet
o Roads
o Public transportation
o Absence of local English speaking guides
o ETC
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Rich biodiversity
Interesting culture
Tasty food
Non-explored nature areas
Prices
Country size
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Volunteer
Conservation programs
Pay
Trail-building
Community development
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Armenia has a chance to become one of the
most visited Eco-touristic places
SO LET’S JUST DO IT
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Thank you!