CMS/ScC14/Inf.8
    Wildlife Watching and tourism
                            a study on the benefits and risks  
                            of a fast growing tourism activity  
                                   and its impacts on species
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       Published by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Secretariat of the Convention  
       on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS).
       Wildlife Watching and Tourism: 
       A study on the benefits and risks of a fast growing tourism activity and its impacts on species 
       UNEP /  CMS Secretariat, Bonn, Germany. 68 pages. 
       Produced by              UNEP  /  CMS Convention on Migratory Species and TUI
       Author                   Richard Tapper, Environment Business & Development Group, E-mail: rtapper@dircon.co.uk
       Editing  & Coordinator   Paola Deda, CMS Secretariat, E-mail: pdeda@cms.int
       Publishing Manager       Muriel M. Mannert
       Design                   Karina Waedt
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                   “We fundamentally depend on natural systems and resources for 
                   our existence and development. Our efforts to defeat poverty and 
                   pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental 
                   degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.“ 
                                  KofiAnnan,InLargerFreedom.
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   acknoWledgements
   Many people helped me by discussing the issues surrounding 
   wildlife watching tourism with various species and providing in-
   formation.  Although I have not been able to use all the information 
   I have received, I am extremely grateful to all those people who 
   have been generous with their time and information in helping me 
   to prepare this report:
   Bonnie Abellera, Fred Baerselman, Siddhartha Bajra Bajracharya, 
   Roseline  Beudels,  Andre  Brasser,  Jens  Brüggemann,  Lauretta 
   Burke, Tom Butynski, Janet Cochrane, Stroma Cole, Glyn Davies, 
   Richard Denman, Ian Dickie, Sarah Durant, Gina Ebanks-Petrie, 
   Xavier Font, Barbara French, Sue Gubbay, Sandra Hails, Carolyn 
   Hayle,  Michael Hitchcock, Jonathan Hodrien, Katherine Home-
   wood, Ali Hood, Trent Hreno, Corjan van der Jagt, Alex Kaat, Korie 
   Klink, Cori Lausen, Ashley Leiman, Harvey Lemelin, Bert Lenten, 
   Mark Manteit, Neca Marcovaldi, Pixie Maynard, Christa Mooney, 
   Andy Moore, Mike Norton-Griffiths, John O’Sullivan, Agnieszka 
   Okzanska, Rolph Payet, Art Pedersen, Margi Prideaux, Christoph 
   Promberger, Ian Redmond, Bettina Reineking, Sibylle Riedmiller, 
   Callum Roberts, Anton Roberts, Gerard Rocamora, David Rowat, 
   Anne Russon, Margot Sallows, Chris Sandbrook, Christina Semeni-
   uk, Myra Shackley, Alison Shaw, Mark Simmonds, Mark Spalding, 
   Colin Speedie, Andreas Streit, Rüdiger Strempel, Jamie Sweeting, 
   Richard Thomas, Michael Thompson, Vanessa Williams, Liz Wil-
   liamson, Matthew Woods.
   I  also particularly want to thank Paola Deda, and her assistant 
   Muriel Mannert, at the Convention on Migratory Species for their 
   support and encouragement on this project.
   Richard Tapper