Ecotourism: why watch anything
Michael Gochfeld
gochfeld at eohsi.rutgers.edu
Wed Mar 28 05:35:44 EST 2001
It may not hit bigtime yet for butterflies, but the huge amounts of
money that bird watchers spend on
hotels/food/binoculars/birdseed/books/travel, has been
estimated/quantified and has been used as an economic justification for
habitat preservation in those areas favored by bird watching tourists.
I don't know if it works as good as it sounds, but bird watching is big
business in the United States. Big enough business to capture community
attention.
I suspect that people who go to art museums and movies also fail on the
"adding to science scale".
Mike Gochfeld
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