Dolphin conservation can profit from tourism and Citizen science
| Autor: | Paulo Victor Resende dos Santos, Eduardo Bessa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Geography Planning and Development Population 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Profit (economics) Population data Citizen science Conservation status Business Marketing education Tourism 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Development. 32:100467 |
| ISSN: | 2211-4645 |
| Popis: | Population studies of marine mammals are costly and time-consuming. Nevertheless, many people are happy to use their own resources to apply similar procedures to those necessary to evaluate dolphin populations in dolphin watching tourism. This offers a unique opportunity to collect sufficient data on dolphins to allow for conservation status evaluation by means of Citizen Science, a trending method. Here we crossed information on which species are targeted by tourism and which were lacking important population and ecology data, returning a list of 16 dolphin species which could benefit from dolphin watching tourism to assemble population data with conservation value. We make the case for engaging tourists and tourism agencies in a citizen science effort to raise data on dolphin species. For that, we offer suggestions for dolphin population analyses applicable by non-scientist personal. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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