Ecotourism

Christian Tabifor

Awareness Campaign for the Protection of endangered Great Apes in the Tubah Upland Forest

This project aims to help in the conservation of the great apes population in Tubah Upland Forest through community awareness campaign.

Nirmala Pradhan

An assessment of biodiversity in Panch Pokhari of Sindhupalchok District of Central Nepal Emphasizing Conservation Needs.

This work aims to explore out the existing biodiversity of Panch Pokhari before tourism promotional activity is established here under broader way. Local community will be motivated in conservation work, rare and endangered flora and fauna will be prioritized into the protected list of the country.

Jaime Bolaños-Jiménez

Empowering local communities for responsible development of whalewatching in the central coast of Venezuela

This project aims to empower local communities and stakeholders to responsibly offer high quality whalewatching tours.

Chris Sandbrook

Bwindi Advanced Market Gardeners’ Association (AMAGARA)

Bwindi AMAGARA aims to help local farmers living around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to sell their produce to the tourism industry, giving them an income dependent on the wellbeing of the forest and creating a strong link between conservation and economic development.

Jocelyn Rae Finch

Building Biological Monitoring for Enhanced Management of the Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve, Belize,

The goal of this project is to finalize a monitoring system to provide needed information; train a team in data collection methods; and establish a database for biological information.

Bárbara Galletti and Vernazzani Muñoz

Alfaguara Project, Marine Conservation through Marine Ecotourism, Chile

The Centro de Conservación Cetacea's Alfaguara project seeks to effectively combine long term research, educational and capacity building programs with the objective of developing innovative marine conservation proposals oriented to safeguard the rich biodiversity of the area and guarantee the sustainable development of the communities involved.

Pak I Made Suarnatha

Jaringan Ekowisata Desa (Village Ecotourism Network)

JED invites tourists to come to the villages to see and experience village life. The objectives of JED are to increase the incomes of the villages by diversifying and supplementing their agricultural livelihoods and to raise funds and awareness for conservation.

Johanna Kolehmainen

Magoroto Mlinga Community Ecotourism Project

This project aims to explore the possibility of developing community-based ecotourism as a strategy to integrate forest conservation and community development in Magoroto and Mlinga forests in the East Usambara Mountains, NE Tanzania.

Laura Marina Reyes

Marine Conservation Programme for Central Patagonia, Argentina: Setting Basis for the Creation of Marine Protected Areas

The main goal of this project is to expand and consolidate a long-lasting marine conservation programme for central Patagonia, taking the challenge of changing peoples' perception towards the ocean, and helping to set bases for the future creation of MPAs in this fragile environment.

Aurel Lozan

Microreserve Stanca-Jeloboc - mode of nature coexistence with human activities

The project overall goals are conservation of the forest patches and their great biodiversity by developing ecotourism as a way to involve communities in and make nature help itself.