Sentences with phrase «of ecotourists»

The number of ecotourists visiting Costa Rica has increased steadily at an average rate of 15 percent per year since 1992.

To address this challenge, researchers harnessed modern technology, creating an online photo database called Wildbook for Whale Sharks and enlisted the help of ecotourists and citizens across the globe to upload any images of whale sharks they happened to see or encounter anywhere in the world.

For example, the soy and beef industry in Brazil thrived despite moratoria preventing deforestation, Vietnam expanded agricultural production and forest area simultaneously, and Costa Rica's well protected forests attract millions of ecotourists each year.»

The massive growth of the ecotourist industry has biologists worried.

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Mitchell hopes that a better understanding of the leatherbacks» nesting habits will increase the likelihood that ecotourists will show up when the turtles are nesting.

Then, in 1996, an Australian ecotourist company informed University of California, Santa Cruz, marine biologist Daniel Costa that a group of dwarf minkes regularly congregates around its boat, the Undersea Explorer, coming within meters of snorkelers.

I'll go as an ecotourist to some of these places, but no, I don't have anywhere near the courage of a Wallace or a Walcott.

In addition to his many years of newspaper experience, Silk was a 2009 Metcalf fellow at the Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting and is also the author of a book, «An Ecotourist's Guide to the Everglades and the Florida Keys,» which will soon be published by University Press of Florida.

The whale watching industry provides ecotourists and marine mammal enthusiasts the opportunity to see groups of gray whales as they migrate.

Everything you need to know about group travel and international volunteering from the mouth of a travel expert and a ecotourist.

Known as the Garden Isle, Kauai is not only a golf paradise, but one of the special spots in the world for honeymooners, ecotourists and folks just looking to get away from it all.

The Cavinti Underground river and caves complex is yet another of Laguna's hot ecotourist destinations.

Through clever marketing, by tapping into the local love of the selfie, and promoting the boardwalk as «the love bridge», the mangroves have since become a popular ecotourist destination favoured by young couples for its romantic atmosphere (although signage warns «no immoral acts» with an illustration of a couple holding hands).

Great Otway National Park is easily accessed and is a dream destination for ecotourists, with its wide variety of wildlife including the duck - billed platypus, birdlife and natural beauty.

This unique wilderness area offers ecotourists the ideal place for encounters with the Big Five and allows visitors to track elephant and rhino on foot or view them from the comfort of open safari vehicles.

The town has a fascinating blue - collar history and a bright green ecotourist future as it evolves into one of North America's best as - yet undiscovered outdoor adventure destinations.

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He worked on an ecotourist biopreserve for The American Society of Landscape Architecture and Pronatura in the Yucatan, Mexico and at El Pilar, Belize for UCSB Mesoamerican Institute.

Our group of a dozen ecotourists was making its way back from visiting the Short - Tailed Albatross chick, only the second of this critically endangered species to have hatched on Midway in modern times.