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Primate Tourism: A Tool for Conservation?
Anne E. Russon
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Description for Primate Tourism: A Tool for Conservation?
hardcover. This book considers primate tourism as a primate conservation tool, weighing its effects and developing informed guidelines for ongoing and future tourism ventures. Editor(s): Russon, Anne E.; Wallis, Janette. Num Pages: 350 pages, 50 b/w illus. 22 tables. BIC Classification: KNSG; PSVW79. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 180 x 21. Weight in Grams: 840.
Primate tourism is a growing phenomenon, with increasing pressure coming from several directions: the private sector, governments, and conservation agencies. At the same time, some primate sites are working to exclude or severely restrict tourism because of problems that have developed as a result. Indeed, tourism has proven costly to primates due to factors such as disease, stress, social disruption, vulnerability to poachers, and interference with rehabilitation and reintroduction. Bringing together interdisciplinary expertise in wildlife/nature tourism and primatology, experts present and discuss their accumulated experience from individual primate sites open to tourists, formal studies of primate-focused tourism, and trends in ... Read more
Primate tourism is a growing phenomenon, with increasing pressure coming from several directions: the private sector, governments, and conservation agencies. At the same time, some primate sites are working to exclude or severely restrict tourism because of problems that have developed as a result. Indeed, tourism has proven costly to primates due to factors such as disease, stress, social disruption, vulnerability to poachers, and interference with rehabilitation and reintroduction. Bringing together interdisciplinary expertise in wildlife/nature tourism and primatology, experts present and discuss their accumulated experience from individual primate sites open to tourists, formal studies of primate-focused tourism, and trends in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
839g
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107018129
SKU
V9781107018129
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Ref
99-14
About Anne E. Russon
Anne E. Russon is a Professor of Psychology at Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada, whose research focuses on learning and intelligence in ex-captive Bornean orangutans. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, Indonesia, and several orang-utan conservation agencies. She has edited two volumes for Cambridge University Press: The Evolution of Thought: ... Read more
Reviews for Primate Tourism: A Tool for Conservation?
'Primate Tourism gives an excellent overview of the experiences with primate tourism, the positive and negative effects, and it provides recommendations for the solution of the problems.' Gorilla Journal '... this volume stands out in the breadth and depth of its studies and recommendations while providing much-needed perspective on the scope of the challenges facing primate tourism.' Primates 'The book ... Read more