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dc.contributor.authorMorrison, Clare
dc.contributor.authorSimpkins, Clay
dc.contributor.authorCastley, J Guy
dc.contributor.authorBuckley, Ralf C
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-31T12:30:43Z
dc.date.available2017-10-31T12:30:43Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2013-06-14T03:42:09Z
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0043757
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/48429
dc.description.abstractProtected areas are critical for the conservation of many threatened species. Despite this, many protected areas are acutely underfunded, which reduces their effectiveness significantly. Tourism is one mechanism to promote and fund conservation in protected areas, but there are few studies analyzing its tangible conservation outcomes for threatened species. This study uses the 415 IUCN critically endangered frog species to evaluate the contribution of protected area tourism revenue to conservation. Contributions were calculated for each species as the proportion of geographic range inside protected areas multiplied by the proportion of protected area revenues derived from tourism. Geographic ranges were determined from IUCN Extent of Occurrence maps. Almost 60% (239) of critically endangered frog species occur in protected areas. Higher proportions of total range are protected in Nearctic, Australasian and Afrotopical regions. Tourism contributions to protected area budgets ranged from 5-100%. These financial contributions are highest for developing countries in the Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Neotropical regions. Data for both geographic range and budget are available for 201 critically endangered frog species with proportional contributions from tourism to species protection ranging from 0.8-99%. Tourism's financial contributions to critically endangered frog species protection are highest in the Afrotropical region. This study uses a coarse measure but at the global scale it demonstrates that tourism has significant potential to contribute to global frog conservation efforts.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrome43757-1
dc.relation.ispartofpagetoe43757-9
dc.relation.ispartofissue9
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPloS One
dc.relation.ispartofvolume7
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchConservation and biodiversity
dc.subject.fieldofresearchImpacts of tourism
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode410401
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode350801
dc.titleTourism and the Conservation of Critically Endangered Frogs
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://www.plos.org/journals/license.html
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment
gro.rights.copyright© 2012 Morrison1 et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CCAL. (http://www.plos.org/journals/license.html)
gro.date.issued2012
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorBuckley, Ralf
gro.griffith.authorMorrison, Clare C.
gro.griffith.authorCastley, Guy G.


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