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4 - Proboscis monkey tourism
- from Part II - Asian primates
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- By Heather C. Leasor, Australian National University, Oliver J. Macgregor, Australian National University
- Edited by Anne E. Russon, Janette Wallis, University of Oklahoma
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- Primate Tourism
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- 05 September 2014
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- 11 September 2014, pp 56-75
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Summary
Introduction
Since the 1970s, organizations working for nonhuman primate conservation have emphasized the importance of working with the people in closest contact with nonhuman primates and their forests by attempting to give them a stakeholder share in the benefits of primate preservation and protection (Wetlands, 2001; WWF, 2001). One method for encouraging local protection of nonhuman primates, while maintaining economic balance in the community, is making primates in natural settings a focus for “ecotourism.”
This chapter discusses a case study of primate tourism that focuses on visiting proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) along the Lower Kinabatangan River in Sabah, Malaysia. The proboscis monkey is an endangered species and a focal species for conservation and tourism in Borneo. The Lower Kinabatangan area is home to proboscis monkeys that have been studied through four PhD projects: Boonratana in 1992, Tadahiro in 2000, Leasor in 2003, and Matsuda in 2005. Tourism has been developing in the area since the mid-1990s. If tourism in this area is to contribute to conserving the area’s natural habitat, proboscis monkeys, and other resident wildlife, then it should operate as ecotourism. It is often promoted as such by the Malaysian Tourism Board. However, numerous signs suggest that much of this tourism does not qualify as legitimate ecotourism.
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- By Federico Agliardi, Andrea Alpiger, Gianluca Bianchi Fasani, Lars Harald Blikra, Brian D. Bornhold, Edward N. Bromhead, Marko H.K. Bulmer, D. Calvin Campbell, Marie Charrière, Masahiro Chigira, John J. Clague, John Coggan, Giovanni B. Crosta, Tim Davies, Marc-Henri Derron, Mark Diederichs, Erik Eberhardt, Carlo Esposito, Robin Fell, Paolo Frattini, Corey R. Froese, Monica Ghirotti, Valentin Gischig, James S. Griffiths, Stephen R. Hencher, Reginald L. Hermanns, Kris Holm, Seyyedmahdi Hosseyni, Niels Hovius, Christian Huggel, Florian Humair, Oldrich Hungr, D. Jean Hutchinson, Michel Jaboyedoff, Matthias Jakob, Julien Jakubowski, Randall W. Jibson, Katherine S. Kalenchuk, Nikolay Khabarov, Oliver Korup, Luca Lenti, Serge Leroueil, Simon Loew, Oddvar Longva, Patrick MacGregor, Andrew W. Malone, Salvatore Martino, Scott McDougall, Mika McKinnon, Mauri McSaveney, Patrick Meunier, Dennis Moore, Jeffrey R. Moore, David C. Mosher, Michael Obersteiner, Lucio Olivares, Thierry Oppikofer, Luca Pagano, Massimo Pecci, Andrea Pedrazzini, David Petley, Luciano Picarelli, David J.W. Piper, John Psutka, Nicholas J. Roberts, Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza, David Stapledon, Douglas Stead, Richard E. Thomson, Paolo Tommasi, J. Kenneth Torrance, Nobuyuki Torii, Gianfranco Urciuoli, Gonghui Wang, Christopher F. Waythomas, Malcolm Whitworth, Heike Willenberg, Xiyong Wu
- Edited by John J. Clague, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Douglas Stead, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
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- Landslides
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- 05 May 2013
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- 23 August 2012, pp vii-x
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