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...fact, I am a happy camper, or in more formal terms, a satisfied ecotourist, defined by the Ecotourism Society as someone engaged in "responsible travel to natural areas, which conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local people." Here in the Great Bear Rainforest--which lies between Knight Inlet, about 100 air miles northwest of Vancouver, and the Alaska border--are some of the highest concentrations of grizzlies in North America. Up to three times as many live here as in all the U.S. Not only can I commune (at a safe distance) with the bears...
...annually in recent years. Many of the 13 million Americans who travel to Canada for leisure each year participate in outdoor activities. When Dean Wyatt bought Knight Inlet Lodge in 1996, all his business was sports fishing; now it is 98% ecotourism. Since 1993 the number of Canadian-based ecotourist operators like Wyatt has tripled, to more than...
...resident" whales that live in these waters. Thanks to Chaplow, I feel as if I have not just seen the orcas but also met them--and having met them, on returning home I even adopted R2 via the website www.whalelink.org Indeed, it is a goal of many ecotourist outfitters to send their clients back home caring enough to consider supporting the cause of protecting these animals and their surroundings--emotionally and financially...
Africa, in fact, is awash with ecotourist ventures. In Zimbabwe a partnership has blossomed between the government and local communities to conserve the natural environment and manage wildlife resources as a way to attract tourist dollars. In South Africa the Conservation Corp., set up in 1991, has grown into Africa's largest ecotourism group, with 2,500 employees and $40 million in capitalization...
...doubt there are pitfalls to every kind of ecotourist venture. Whether it preserves or disturbs a region and its inhabitants depends entirely on the sensitivity of the people who decide the scale and nature of tourist operations. Moreover, all too often nations and peoples develop an interest in saving ecosystems only after they have been nearly destroyed by exploitation. The great virtue of ecotourism is that it allows people to profit from undisturbed nature. There is little doubt that tourism ventures motivated by respect for nature are preferable to the kind of commercialization that in the past has ruined...