ecotourism

1. EXEMPLARY ECOTOURISM STRATEGIES FOR DEALING WITH HYPOTHETICAL
STRESSES AND SOURCES TO THE LOWLAND PINE SAVANNA CONSERVATION
TARGET
STRESSES SOURCES STRATEGIES
ALTERED FAUNAL
SPECIES
Incompatible Tourism
practices
Improve management of
visitors through:
• Ecotourism Zoning
• Visitor Impact
Monitoring
• Visitor Management
guidelines and
education
Work with certain tour
groups through a volunteer
program to establish parrot
nesting boxes to restore
the parrot population to its
minimum viable size.

2. Altered vegetation structure Incompatible tourism
practices
Improve management of
visitors through:
• Diversification of visitor
sites
• Visitor impact monitoring
Contamination Incompatible Wastewater
treatment
Improve management of
visitors through:
• Ecotourism infrastructure
guidelines
• Visitor impact monitoring
Altered floral species
composition
Commercial collecting Develop compatible
economic development
opportunities for community
orchid harvesters through
ecotourism.
Enhance park investment in
protection & enforcement
through more and better-trained
park guards

3. Altered faunal species
composition
Commercial Collecting /
Poaching
Develop compatible
economic development
opportunities for
community orchid
harvesters through
ecotourism.
Enhance park investment in
protection and enforcement
through more and better-trained
park guards.
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4. How to evaluate Potential strategies?
Benefits
• Reduction of threat status
• Enhancement of biodiversity health
• Leverage
Feasibility / Probability of Success
• Lead person and institution
• Complexity and influence of outside forces

5. Cost of Implementation
• Consider the funding required for ecotourism
management planning and probability of
securing new or ongoing funds for this strategy.
• Consider the cost of failure to other
conservation strategies that may be threatened.
• Ecotourism development planning will include
financial feasibility assessments as part of the
business planning process.