Minimal-Impact Education Can Reduce Actual Impacts of Park Visitors

Park Visitors and Web 2.0 - Crowdsourcing in Park Management?

The concept of crowdsourcing sounds like a potentially useful method to gather information collectively contributed by a group of individuals. However, how willing would individuals actually be in contributing information in reality? This paper primarily presents the findings from a visitor survey conducted at a prominent National Park in Victoria, Australia, as part of a research project. The ...

Targeting bigger schools can reduce ecosystem impacts of fisheries

Sustainability of living resource exploitation relies on an ecosystem management approach. Within tropical tuna purse seine fisheries using fish aggregating devices (FADs), such an approach incorporates the reduction of bycatch, in particular vulnerable species such as elasmobranchs. The levels of total bycatch (in mass) from fishing operations using FADs is known to be five times higher than w...

Assessing and Modeling Visitors’ Evaluations of Park Road Conditions in Yosemite National Park

Introduction Park visitors' travel choices and behavior are longstanding concerns for the National Park Service. Travel behaviors can affect natural and cultural resources and the quality of the visitor experience. Driving park roadways has been central to the Ameri can national park experience since the earliest days of park preservation. As historian David Louter (2006) argued in his book Win...

How international visitors do contribute to management processes of Perhentian Island Marine Park Malaysia?

a survey of recreational needs of visitors bamu national park

this is a year field study to evaluate the recreational needs of visitors bamu national park. bamu national park has the potential ecotourism capabilities to attract ecotourist which should be utilizing of this ability in regional planning. in this study clawson method used that one of the most common methods of evaluation systems resorts in aware of the people comments. about 225 questionnaire...