A rapid assessment of wildlife tourism risk posed to cetaceans in Asia
Dolphin-watching tourism is growing globally. In developing countries, the typically low environmental awareness of operators and poorly enforced or non-existent regulations exacerbate risks to wildlife. Ecological indicators like behavioural responses are useful to assess wildlife tourism, but...
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| author | Mustika, Putu Liza Kusuma Welters, Riccardo Ryan, Gerard Edward D'Lima, Coralie Sorongon-Yap, Patricia Jutapruet, Suwat Peter, Cindy |
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| description | Dolphin-watching tourism is growing globally. In developing countries, the
typically low environmental awareness of operators and poorly enforced
or non-existent regulations exacerbate risks to wildlife. Ecological
indicators like behavioural responses are useful to assess wildlife tourism,
but obtaining such data is slow and expensive. We modified the Driver–
Pressure–State–Impact–Response (DPSIR) framework to rapidly assess the
risk of dolphin-watching tourism harming, displacing or causing local
extinction to dolphin populations, using human dimension data to
complement limited ecological data. We assessed industries at seven
dolphin-watching sites in six countries in Asia: Cambodia, India, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. All sites have reached or almost
reached financial saturation except Cambodia and Malaysia. We find high
risk to dolphins at the sites in India and Indonesia and intermediate risk at
the site in Cambodia. Pending more ecological data, the risk at Thailand,
the Philippines, and Malaysian sites might be low. Our analysis also
indicates site-specific conservation recommendations for Driver, Pressure
and Response. We suggest that the DPSIR framework is useful to assess
the risk of a wildlife watching industry, even when the impact is uncertain
due to insufficient ecological data. |
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| spelling | unimas-153292017-02-16T07:55:48Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15329/ A rapid assessment of wildlife tourism risk posed to cetaceans in Asia Mustika, Putu Liza Kusuma Welters, Riccardo Ryan, Gerard Edward D'Lima, Coralie Sorongon-Yap, Patricia Jutapruet, Suwat Peter, Cindy GE Environmental Sciences Dolphin-watching tourism is growing globally. In developing countries, the typically low environmental awareness of operators and poorly enforced or non-existent regulations exacerbate risks to wildlife. Ecological indicators like behavioural responses are useful to assess wildlife tourism, but obtaining such data is slow and expensive. We modified the Driver– Pressure–State–Impact–Response (DPSIR) framework to rapidly assess the risk of dolphin-watching tourism harming, displacing or causing local extinction to dolphin populations, using human dimension data to complement limited ecological data. We assessed industries at seven dolphin-watching sites in six countries in Asia: Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. All sites have reached or almost reached financial saturation except Cambodia and Malaysia. We find high risk to dolphins at the sites in India and Indonesia and intermediate risk at the site in Cambodia. Pending more ecological data, the risk at Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysian sites might be low. Our analysis also indicates site-specific conservation recommendations for Driver, Pressure and Response. We suggest that the DPSIR framework is useful to assess the risk of a wildlife watching industry, even when the impact is uncertain due to insufficient ecological data. Routledge 2016-12-01 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15329/7/A%20rapid%20assessment%20of%20wildlife%20tourism%20risk%20posed%20to%20cetaceans%20%28abstract%29.pdf Mustika, Putu Liza Kusuma and Welters, Riccardo and Ryan, Gerard Edward and D'Lima, Coralie and Sorongon-Yap, Patricia and Jutapruet, Suwat and Peter, Cindy (2016) A rapid assessment of wildlife tourism risk posed to cetaceans in Asia. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. pp. 1-21. ISSN 09669582 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85006107037&doi=10.1080%2f09669582.2016.1257012&partnerID=40&md5=ccb3aca3c9646a6682b3bac7cc6ab4b8 DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2016.1257012 |
| spellingShingle | GE Environmental Sciences Mustika, Putu Liza Kusuma Welters, Riccardo Ryan, Gerard Edward D'Lima, Coralie Sorongon-Yap, Patricia Jutapruet, Suwat Peter, Cindy A rapid assessment of wildlife tourism risk posed to cetaceans in Asia |
| title | A rapid assessment of wildlife tourism risk posed to cetaceans in Asia |
| title_full | A rapid assessment of wildlife tourism risk posed to cetaceans in Asia |
| title_fullStr | A rapid assessment of wildlife tourism risk posed to cetaceans in Asia |
| title_full_unstemmed | A rapid assessment of wildlife tourism risk posed to cetaceans in Asia |
| title_short | A rapid assessment of wildlife tourism risk posed to cetaceans in Asia |
| title_sort | rapid assessment of wildlife tourism risk posed to cetaceans in asia |
| topic | GE Environmental Sciences |
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