The Trouble with Tourists
Ecotourism has steadily increased in popularity over the past decade, with more and more travellers choosing vacations that bring them closer to exotic wildlife and uninhabited natural preserves. This increase […]
Ecotourism has steadily increased in popularity over the past decade, with more and more travellers choosing vacations that bring them closer to exotic wildlife and uninhabited natural preserves. This increase […]
An important part of many conservation programs is running extensive surveys, to understand the biodiversity that presently lives in the conservation area. Wildlife surveys help conservationists understand both what lives […]
Did you know that on May 10th, 2013, Toronto is gaining an exciting new title? It’s a title that announces to the world that Torontonians are more than just consumers; […]
Twenty-two-thousand-two-hundred-eighteen. That is how many great apes the United Nation’s Great Ape Survival Partnership estimates have been lost to illegal trading since 2005 (Stiles et al, 2013). This includes lives […]
One of the most important considerations in conservation is the people who live side-by-side with the animals we are trying to protect. The relationship between local people and the animals […]
The annual World Economic Forum, a multinational conference that addresses (among other things) the global status in terms of development and sustainability, was held last week in Switzerland. Unsurprisingly, one […]
When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai turned her attention to the state of the environment in Kenya in 1977, she began with a tool that had been previously overlooked […]