EDITORIAL: Protected Area Tourism and the Aichi Targets

Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China

Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China Wei Liu, Christine A. Vogt, Frank Lupi, Guangming He, Zhiyun Ouyang & Jianguo Liu To cite this article: Wei Liu, Christine A. Vogt, Frank Lupi, Guangming He, Zhiyun Ouyang & Jianguo Liu (2015): Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2015.1071380 To link to this a...

Meeting the Aichi targets: Pushing for zero extinction conservation

Effective protection of the ~19 000 IUCN-listed threatened species has never been more pressing. Ensuring the survival of the most vulnerable and irreplaceable taxa and places, such as those identified by the Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) species and their associated sites (AZEs&s), is an excellent opportunity to achieve the Aichi 2020 Targets T11 (protected areas) and T12 (preventing spec...

Hiking trails and tourism impact assessment in protected area: Jiuzhaigou Biosphere Reserve, China.

More and more visitors are attracted to protected areas nowadays, which not only bring about economic increase but also seriously adverse impacts on the ecological environment. In protected areas, trails are linkage between visitors and natural ecosystem, so they concentrate most of the adverse impacts caused by visitors. The trampling problems on the trails have been received attentions in the...

Constructing partnerships for protected area tourism planning in an era of change and messiness

Suitability determining in protected area for wildlife (Case study: Geno protected area)

Introduction: Rangelands constitute almost 52 percent of the country area computed as 164 million ha. The extent of rangelands has been estimated 84 million ha in Iran and they have been classified as good, moderate to poor and poor to very poor ones ranged as almost 10, 42 and 48 percent, respectively. One of the fundamental problems concerning land uses of rangelands is that Rangeland are not...