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Looking for North Atlantic Baleen Whales: When are they coming to the Azores?
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2014 The archipelago of the Azores is like an oasis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Surrounded by deep waters, those islands are a “must stop” place for every traveler, including, of course, cetaceans.
Laura González, Miranda van der Linde
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Whale watch or no watch: the Australian whale watching tourism industry and climate change [PDF]
Regional Environmental Change, 2016 Whale watching is a billion dollar industry worldwide. One of the most popular species for whale watching is the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). The migratory corridors, feeding, resting and calving sites which are used for whale watching may be influenced by changing ocean currents and water temperatures.
Meynecke, Jan-Olaf +2 more
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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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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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Whale Watching as Ecotourism: How Sustainable is it?
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014 Australia has long tried to portray itself as an environmentally responsible state and has consistently been a strong supporter of Whale Watching as an alternative to the practice of commercial and ‘scientific’ whaling. This paper explores whale watching
Stephen Leslie Wearing +3 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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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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