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Whale Watching in the Pelagos Sanctuary: Status and Quality Assessment
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 In 2001 Italy, France, and Principality of Monaco instituted a protected area for marine mammals in northwestern Mediterranean Sea, named the Pelagos Sanctuary.
Paola Tepsich +5 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022 Balancing the sustainable practices of whale watching and cetacean species conservation is an enormous challenge for the countries that rely on whale watching tourism industry.
Arockia E. J. Ferdin +2 more
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Estimating the Impact of Whaling on Global Whale Watching [PDF]
After a commercial whaling moratorium was enacted in 1986, whale watching became one of the fastest growing tourism industries worldwide. As whaling is regarded as an activity that is incompatible with whale watching, the possible resumption of ...
Michael McAleer +2 more
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The non-consumptive economic value of wildlife: the case of three cetacean species
Scientia Marina, 2023 The conservation of wildlife is one of the most pressing issues in the current times, but wildlife conservation economic values have often been largely ignored due to an absence of market prices, as setting an economic value on biodiversity or whole ...
Jazel Ouled-Cheikh +6 more
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Almatourism, 2016 Whale watching is a dynamic industry and, in particular in a country like Iceland, where tourism is currently playing a leading role in the national economy and where nature – understood in a broad sense – represents the main attraction for visitors ...
Enrico Nicosia, Perini Francesco
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Impact of climate change on sustainable management of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) populations: Whale-watching and conservation [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2013 Some pods of gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) breed every winter at three lagoons along the Baja California Peninsula and then migrate to feeding grounds on the Bering and Chukchi Seas. The number of whales arriving to the lagoons fluctuates yearly
Salvadeo Christian J. +5 more
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Challenges of Whale Watching and Swim With Dolphins in Mexico
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Mexico is one of the top 10 whale-watching destinations in the world. The target species for “whale watching” (WW) are the gray whale, blue whale, humpback whale, and fin whale; the target species for “swim with dolphins” (SWD) are the bottlenose dolphin,
R. Jorge Urbán, Lorena Viloria-Gómora
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The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1999 In this article, the authors develop a discourse analytic framework for examining the antecedents, dynamics, and outcomes of interorganizational collaboration. They argue that a framework based on a discursive understanding of collaboration can provide a coherent basis for understanding the dynamics of collaboration, the relation of collaboration to ...
Lawrence, TB, Phillips, N, Hardy, C
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Whale-watch vessel noise levels with applications to whale-watching guidelines and conservation
Marine Policy, 2021 The number and size of whale-watching and swim-with-cetacean vessels are increasing worldwide, but the noise impact on targeted species depends on vessel source characteristics, which remain largely unquantified. Here, we report the acoustic characteristics from 13 whale-watching vessels from Australia and Canary Islands.
Patricia Arranz +3 more
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Addressing dynamic uncertainty in the whale-watching industry under climate change and system shocks
, 2021 Whale-watching is a global tourism industry whose annual revenue exceeds two billion dollars. Australia is a key player in this industry, especially on the east and west coast where humpback whales migrate each year between their breeding and feeding ...
Sahin, O +5 more
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