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- Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award (Treehugger.com)
Image: Planeta Nominations have closed and the list of candidates for the 2010 Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award is set. All that is left is the voting. Fifteen tourism services owned and operated by indigenous or local communities, and representing ten countries, are eligible for the 2010 award. So twitter away, with the hashtag #itbw10, if you want to help bring public attention to biodiversity and best practices in managing tourism. Awards will be presented at the annual International Convention for Alternative...Read the full story on TreeHugger - Innovative Thai Architect Singh Intrachooto: "Focus on process, not products." (Celsias.com)
Like many countries, Thailand has an issue with waste. From buildings, to manufacturing and agriculture, to consumer goods and tourism leftovers, mountains of garbage go to landfill each year. Agriculture alone in Thailand churns out 58,190,000 tons of refuse annually (Land Development Department, Government of Thailand). Think about that the next time you frolic on a Thai beach. Throughput of industrial system today, from source to end consumer, ends up in landfills or incinerator. For every truckload of product with lasting value, 32 truckloads of waste are produced. On a finite planet, it doesn’t take a genius ... - Tourists in Antarctica cause of major concern (Sciencedaily.com)
The 40,000 'eco-tourists' who visit the South Pole every year cause enormous greenhouse gas emissions. The visitors to the snow-covered landmass are endangering not just the Antarctic region by their actions, but also the rest of the world. Scientists have investigated the impacts of increased tourism on Antarctica and how this impact could be curbed. - Antarctica Tourism Causing Major Concerns (Redorbit.com)
The 40,000 'eco-tourists' who visit the South Pole every year cause enormous greenhouse gas emissions. The visitors to the snow-covered landmass are endangering not just the Antarctic region by their actions, but also the rest of the world. - Wilderness Makes West Virginia Wonderful (Treehugger.com)
Scene from West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest Wilderness. Image credit:Wilderness Society West Virginia is more than deserving of its state slogan: "Wild and Wonderful." It boasts Ancient mountains, untamed rivers, caves, culture, and much more. What's bizarre to me, however, is that the West Virginia Hospitality and Tourism Association believes that its members who cater to tourists should support none other than coal mining -- even when that involves blowing off the tops of those ancient mountains. - Coal plant could damage rainforest reserves, coal reefs, palm oil plantations in Malaysian Borneo (News.mongabay.com)
Mongabay: A proposed coal-fired power plant in Malaysian Borneo could damage the region's world-renowned coral reefs, pollute air and water supplies, open Sabah's biodiverse rainforests to mining, and undermine the state's effort to promote itself as a destination for "green" investment and ecotourism, warn environmentalists leading an effort to block the project. The scheme, which is backed by the federal Tenaga Nasional Berhad and state energy company, Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd, has faced ... - Eco-tourism and the Double-Edged Sword of Development (+ Video) (Celsias.com)
In many developing countries, eco-tourism projects are heralded as one way to bring money into communities and create economic benefits for local people. The premise is simple: showcase the local culture and natural heritage and gain the tourist dollar. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple business idea gets messy when implemented. Small communities are often overrun with waste from materials brought in for or by tourists. Mountains of plastic water bottles and other refuse are the usual suspects. Also, communities often lack sufficient water and sanitation infrastructure, which leads to sewerage issues. Local natural attractions can be overrun and degraded by unscrupulous ... - Protecting Waterways from a Deadly Problem (Wri.org)
Nutrient pollution emerges as one of the greatest threats to water quality. In the Chesapeake Bay, large schools of jellyfish scare away swimmers. In the Gulf of Mexico, a 3,000 square mile “dead zone” threatens a multi-billion dollar fishing industry. In Qindao, Beijing Olympics officials had to scoop large masses of green algae out of the water before sailing races could take place. These are all effects of eutrophication—pollution caused when nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients enter the water in massive amounts. And it’s a problem with which people in both the developed and developing world are becoming frighteningly familiar. What is eutrophication? While “nutrients” are usually seen as a good thing, eutrophication is really a matter of “too much of a good thing.” Nutrients entering waterways can come from a variety of sources, such as chemical fertilizers, vehicle emissions, treated wastewater, manure, and septic systems. Over the past fifty years, eutrophication has increasingly become one of the greatest risks to our water quality. A new set of WRI policy notes provide a global assessment of areas at risk, a description of eutrophication sources and drivers, and a review of policies, actions, and strategies to address this deadly problem. When too many of these nutrients run off into waterways, they upset the natural balance of aquatic ecosystems. Too many nutrients act like too much fertilizer – the nutrients feed booming algae populations, which can overrun waterways, block sunlight, and sap the water of its oxygen, creating hypoxic or “dead” zones, fish kills, and ecosystem collapse. Today, over 500 coastal areas are suffering from eutrophication, and 405 of those experience hypoxia, where oxygen levels in the water dip so low that they cannot sustain life. Nutrient pollution is devastating to communities that depend on ecosystem services like tourism, recreation, and fisheries. For people living alongside eutrophic wate ... - Major international banks, shipping companies, and consumers play key role in Madagascar's logging crisis (News.mongabay.com)
Mongabay: In the midst of cyclone season, a 'dead' period for tourism to Madagascar's east coast, Vohémar, a sleepy town dominated by the vanilla trade, is abuzz. Vanilla prices have scarcely been lower, but the hotels are full and the port is busy. "This afternoon, it was like a 4 wheel drive show in front of the Direction Regionale des Eaux & Forets," one source wrote in an email on November 29th: "Many new 4x4, latest model, new plane at the airport, Chinese everywhere." Loggers in ... - New Antarctic Shipping Regulations Announced (Aboutmyplanet.com)
The human and environmental threats to the Antarctic are growing alongside increasing tourism in the area. In the late 1990s, approximately 10,000 people visited the Antarctic as tourists annually. In 2008, 45,000 tourists visited Antarctica. In order to decrease the impact such visits may have on the environment, nations which are part of the Antarctic [...] - The Lake District after the floods (Guardian.co.uk)
The floods have resided and a new campaign means that you could bag a bargain over Christmas and New Year. Georgia Brown reports from a crowd-free CumbriaNovember's '"once in a 1,000 year" deluge transformed the Lake District's peaceful villages and poetic hills into scenes of water-logged chaos. Images of broken bridges, flooded streets and the tragic death