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The Role of Nature Trekking in Conservation: A Case-study in Thailand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Warren Y. Brockelman  and
Philip Dearden
Warren Y. Brockelman
Affiliation:
Visiting Professor, Centre for Conservation Biology, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University, Rama VI Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
Philip Dearden
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 2Y2, Canada.
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Nature-based tourism is one of the few economic uses of natural areas that is compatible with protection of the environment and its wildlife. With more than 100 national parks and other conservation areas in Thailand, and a diverse tropical fauna and flora, Nature tourism has tremendous potential for expansion. Although seldom designed to do so, Nature tourism can provide significant income to targeted villages near the borders of national parks, and hence help to reduce illegal exploitation of park resources by local inhabitants.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , Summer 1990 , pp. 141 - 148
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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