Ecotourism Impact on Independently Owned Nature Reserves in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
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Independently owned nature reserves are proliferating across the developing world. Nevertheless, the conservation community knows practically nothing about them. This paper examines the economic, ecological, and social impacts of ecotourism, as evidenced at thirty-two of these reserves. Ecotourism is shown to be the primary means through which reserves survive financially. This reliance provides a direct link between ecotourism and the conservation and development accomplishments of the reserves. While independently owned nature reserves are no panacea for the world’s biodiversity woes, they are a viable tool for supplementing larger government conservation and development efforts and shifting control of natural resources to rural peoples.
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