Critical Tiger Habitat or Critical Wildlife Habitat

The development of tourism around certain key wildlife species can be problematic. Evaluate strategies which are used, around the world, to seek a working balance in the Nature-People relationship?

From the CBC news, Alison Woodley as the national director of the park program with CPAWS, had written a report which indicates the method and emphasis changed over past years, in terms of Park management. It moves from environmental-based to marketing-essential. She reports the 3 major management issues and how the decisions made against the original mission statement which is to protect environment and recovery the species at risk. Issues such as oversighting and ignoring the regulations in order to expand the marketing aspect, and also, the environmental risks as the consequences of the marketing expansion. Alison mentions that due to the large amount of visitors affects the regular maintenance of infrastructure in parks. Alison was wondering the reason this this situation. The minister of the office replies that the government devotes to expanding the number of visitors and preventing the national park at the same time.

At the end of the paper, readers will be exposed to the dark side of the National Park System and look at this system more critically than before. I hope when the visitors enjoy the beautiful parks in the future, they can think of the hidden stories of the Indians and recognize them in their heart.

With the impact of tourism increasing progressively since the 90’s when a natural iconic monument such as Everest is threatened to be changed and altered in a negative way, there is bound to be someone stepping in demanding protection and policy for protection. Luckily, Everest and the surrounding mountains are in a buffer zone, labeling it a national park with the intention of protecting its culture, diversity, and natural resources. Established July 19th, 1976, Sagarmatha National Park would give the Everest region the protection and management it needed to fend of careless travelers and opportunist from destroying such a space of natural beauty and phenomena. This kind of marker designates monies and resources that can go into development

How the reintrodction of Wolves changed Yellow Stone National Park. (Process Narritive, Dialogue, Cause & effect, simple casuation, formal evaluation)

It is for these threats that the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve was created in 1973, and later designated as the Sundarban Forest Reserve in 1978. It now covers the whole of the Sundarbans, aimed towards managing it in a sustainable way. Armed forest staff patrol in motorboats and launches, protecting the reserve from poachers and theft of forest products such as the valuable honey and wax that is limited for collecting to only two and a half months a year, while seminars, workshops and awareness camps are conducted frequently inside the park to educate people and tourists on eco-conservation and eco-development. By educating people, there will be a greater understanding and cooperation between local villagers and authorities, so locals can benefit from the surrounding ecosystem while still protecting the environment and not completely exploiting it.

Policies at the local, state, and federal level have had a large impact on management and are also reflective of how governments perceived the role of wildlife refuges. The Klamath River Basin, like much of the western United States, has much federal influence because of the prevalence of federal lands in the basin. The policy making bodies within the Klamath make decisions based on the missions and interests of their individual agencies, and sometimes these missions can be contradictory(Wilson 2010). Evaluation of the roles of federal agencies and the differences in agency policy is vital for understanding management in the refuges. For the purpose of my study I will examine the challenges of refuge management by interviewing refuge staff

Environment means, the normal territory joins the fair environment, plasma, interesting particle emission, electromagnetic radiation (EMR), meteoroids, orbital debris, appealing field, physical and warm constants, and gravitational field. ( Robert E.1994). Environment means the area, water, air, plants, creatures; strong squanders and different things that are surrounding us compose our atmosphere. Operate and environments are almost scrambled with one another, to keep up equalization in nature. Deforestation suggests it is the change of timberland to another region use or the whole deal diminishment of the tree haven spread underneath the base 10% edge.( Mosandl, Weber.2008). Deforestation means

Through its history, Virunga has been deeply affected by the country’s political climate. From poaching to war, the park rangers, key politicians, conservationists, and concerned individuals had work hard for the park to survive. As of now, people across the world are donating and signing petitions for the park to survive and from ever being drilled again. The work ethic shown by the Virunga’s rangers demonstrates the love they have for the national park and the animals to live forever. The greatest incentive for the park rangers is for the animals to live forever because it’s the only thing that keeps the national park living. Through the film, I was amazed how how much empathy and sympathy the rangers have for their national

The designation of critical habitat, or other explicit habitat protection, is one of the protections sometimes given to listed species at both the state and federal level. This requirements is based on an understanding that habitat is crucial to species survival and recovery, and the habitat most important to a species should be identified at the time the species is listed under the federal ESA. Critical habitat designation does not affect private landowners unless they are applying for a federal permit of funding, but it requires that government agency review the impact of their actions to insure that this habitat adversely affected. Only sex states have provision requiring critical habitat designation, and it is rarely used.

Critical habitat, that deemed “essential to the survival of a species”, presents an important habitat designation with regard to species protection as it requires the consideration of specific geographic areas inhabited by the species, as well as those areas currently unoccupied by the given species, but which may provide conservation benefit nonetheless.[1] The legal effect of critical habitat designation are described by sections 4 and 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) respectively, they; authorize the US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) to designate critical habitat - concurrent to the listing of a species as “threatened” or “endangered”[2] – and establish an FWS/ NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) consultation process for federal agencies intended to “ensure actions that they carry out, fund, or authorize do not ‘jeopardize’ the continued existence of listed species or ‘adversely modify’ their critical habitat.”[3] The key issues surrounding such designation vary considerably, ranging from; difficulties in habitat selection associated with the displacement of wildlife (i.e. due to global climate change), and ambiguity pertaining to the implementation of designations. FWS have voiced concern for the efficacy of critical habitat designations, stating that they act to “distract from higher-priority work”, while insignificantly affecting the protection of a species – alternatively, the courts have responded in favor of the practice, ruling that critical

From an environmental perspective, it is apparent that the world is starting to realise that increases in tourism are having a negative impact on the environment. This is due to increases in energy consumption, which in turn heightens the effects of global warming (Neto, 2002). There are many controls that governments are trying to put into place, such as flight rationing (Liverpool Business School, 2009). However, it can be argued that these have not really begun to have a significant effect on tourism, as they are still insufficient to dampen demand. It may become a problem in future years, as the number of controls is likely to increase. Perhaps the largest environmental factor would be natural disasters, like Hurricane Katrina (Cashell, 2005) and the tsunami that hit Asia in December 2004 (Birkland, 2006). These will impact negatively on people’s confidence in visiting places that have been hit severely by such disasters.

1. From reading this summary of tiger ecology, what aspects of the tiger’s environment need to be recreated in a zoo environment?

In order to address the conflict between the rights of local people and the Bengal tiger, a conservation project was issued in 1973, turning a large proportion of the Sundarbans into a refuge. It is in this context that the story takes place, and through this context that Ghosh evaluates the extent to which such a utopian ideal is possible.

The case of Flying Tiger in Japan initially caught our attention due to the big success immediately after market entry. Later on in the process we learned that there are many challenging aspects of operating the Flying Tiger business in Japan. The massive news media coverage and public attention in the early stage after the entry, served as a head start for the company. However it is not possible to sustain that level of attention, so it is necessary for Flying Tiger to figure out how to build a long-term competitive position in the Japanese market. We found that Flying Tiger needs to constantly reinvent and build the brand image, as the branding and the ‘story’ of the brand is extremely important in Japan. It is crucial for Flying Tiger to hold on to their uniqueness.