A5067207898- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Forest Management and Policy
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Plant and animal studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
University of British Columbia
2016-2025
World Wildlife Fund
2015-2024
WWF Colombia
2006-2024
Wageningen University & Research
2023
University of Vermont
2017-2022
Bandung Institute of Technology
2021
University of Montana
2021
University of Utah
2021
Murdoch University
2021
Cheetah Conservation Fund
2013
How often do people visit the world’s protected areas (PAs)? Despite PAs covering one-eighth of land and being a major focus nature-based recreation tourism, we don’t know. To address this, compiled globally-representative database visits to built region-specific models predicting rates from PA size, local population remoteness, natural attractiveness, national income. Applying these all but very smallest terrestrial suggests that together they receive roughly 8 billion (8 x 109) visits/y—of...
Reports of rapid growth in nature-based tourism and recreation add significant weight to the economic case for biodiversity conservation but seem contradict widely voiced concerns that people are becoming increasingly isolated from nature. This apparent paradox has been highlighted by a recent study showing on per capita basis, visits natural areas United States Japan have declined over last two decades. These results cited as evidence "a fundamental pervasive shift away recreation"-but how...
Slowing rates of global biodiversity loss requires preventing species extinctions. Here we pinpoint centers imminent extinction, where highly threatened are confined to single sites. Within five globally assessed taxa (i.e., mammals, birds, selected reptiles, amphibians, and conifers), find 794 such species, three times the number recorded as having gone extinct since 1500. These occur in 595 sites, concentrated tropical forests, on islands, mountainous areas. Their taxonomic geographical...
It has become essential in policy and decision‐making circles to think about the economic benefits (in addition moral scientific motivations) humans derive from well‐functioning ecosystems. The concept of ecosystem services been developed address this link between ecosystems human welfare. Since decisions are often evaluated through cost–benefit assessments, an analysis can help make service research operational. In paper we provide some simple analyses discuss key concepts involved...
Resources for biodiversity conservation are severely limited, requiring strategic investment. Understanding both the economic benefits and costs of conserving ecosystems will help to allocate scarce dollars most efficiently. However, although cost-benefit analyses common in many areas policy, they not typically used planning. We conducted a spatial evaluation landscape Atlantic forests Paraguay. considered five ecosystem services (i.e., sustainable bushmeat harvest, timber bioprospecting...
Protected areas positively affect several aspects of human well-being across the developing world.
Abstract: Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a popular conservation strategy, but their impacts on human welfare poorly understood . To inform future research and policy decisions, we reviewed the scientific literature to assess MPA five indicators of welfare: food security, resource rights, employment, community organization, income Following establishment, security generally remained stable or increased in older smaller MPAs The ability most fishing groups govern resources changed Increased...
Tourism and hunting both generate substantial revenues for communities private operators in Africa, but few studies have quantitatively examined the trade-offs synergies that may result from these two activities. We evaluated financial in-kind benefit streams tourism on 77 communal conservancies Namibia 1998 to 2013, where community-based wildlife conservation has been promoted as a land-use complements traditional subsistence agriculture. used data collected annually all characterize...
Abstract Humanity is on a deeply unsustainable trajectory. We are exceeding planetary boundaries and unlikely to meet many international sustainable development goals global environmental targets. Until recently, there was no broadly accepted framework of interventions that could ignite the transformations needed achieve these desired targets goals. As component IPBES Global Assessment, we conducted an iterative expert deliberation process with extensive review scenarios pathways...
Global policies call for connecting protected areas (PAs) to conserve the flow of animals and genes across changing landscapes, yet whether global PA networks currently support animal movement-and where connectivity conservation is most critical-remain largely unknown. In this study, we map functional world's terrestrial PAs quantify national through lens moving mammals. We find that mitigating human footprint may improve more than adding new PAs, although both strategies together maximize...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact on the tourism sector.With numbers dramatically reduced, millions of jobs could be lost, and progress made in equality sustainable economic growth rolled back.Widespread reports dramatic changes to protected conserved 1 area visitation have negative consequences for conservation finances, businesses livelihoods people who supply labour, goods services tourists businesses.This paper aims share experiences from around world impacts tourism;...
The benefits of nature-based tourism to biodiversity conservation are often presumed but rarely quantified. relative value placed on attributes nature parks is unknown, as the contribution tourists' willingness visit a particular protected area. We surveyed tourists and foreign residents in Uganda determine how preferences for areas formed. evaluated demand elevated levels (increased numbers bird species seen), other attributes. As number increased, demonstrated increased area, independently...
Global biodiversity priority setting underpins the strategic allocation of conservation funds. In identifying first comprehensive set global areas for mammals, Ceballos et al. [Ceballos G, Ehrlich PR, Soberón J, Salazar I, Fay JP (2005) Science 309:603-607] found much potential conflict between and agricultural human activity. This is not surprising because, like other priority-setting approaches, they priorities without socioeconomic objectives. Here we present a framework that seeks to...
Recent surveys suggest tens of thousands elephants are being poached annually across Africa, putting the two species at risk much their range. Although financial motivations for ivory poaching clear, economic benefits elephant conservation poorly understood. We use Bayesian statistical modelling tourist visits to protected areas, quantify lost that would have delivered African countries via tourism. Our results show these figures substantial (∼USD $25 million annually), and exceed...
Limited mapping of migrations hampers conservation