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  • Ecotourism as a threatening process for wild orchids

    Author(s)
    Ballantyne, M
    Pickering, C
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Pickering, Catherine M.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    Orchids are a charismatic and highly diverse group of plants, many of which are threatened by human activities. Nature-based tourism is contributing to the decline of some wild orchid populations, although this has rarely been discussed in the tourism literature. We therefore provide a scoping assessment to demonstrate that tourism contributes to the loss of some orchids in the wild by direct collecting, habitat clearance and trampling, and/or indirectly by increasing the impact of other threats such as weeds, pathogens and climate change using data on Australian threatened orchids. Increased recognition and more research ...
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    Orchids are a charismatic and highly diverse group of plants, many of which are threatened by human activities. Nature-based tourism is contributing to the decline of some wild orchid populations, although this has rarely been discussed in the tourism literature. We therefore provide a scoping assessment to demonstrate that tourism contributes to the loss of some orchids in the wild by direct collecting, habitat clearance and trampling, and/or indirectly by increasing the impact of other threats such as weeds, pathogens and climate change using data on Australian threatened orchids. Increased recognition and more research are required into the role of nature-based tourism in the declines of these and other species of threatened plants as well as into the ways in which impacts can be mitigated.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Ecotourism
    Volume
    11
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/14724049.2011.628398
    Subject
    Ecological applications not elsewhere classified
    Tourism
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/51341
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