Kenya Wildlife Service

Williams Powers, an ecotourist activist wrote in his book, Whispering in the Giants Ear, “That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create.” Ecotourism is defined as "responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people." Economical Impact Ecotourism plays a vital role in a nations economy. Many factors entail whether a country can be successful economically.

Introduction FAO (2005) reported that about one half of the forests that covered the Earth are gone. Africa suffers the second largest net loss in forests with 4.0 million hectares cleared annually. At 11.1%, Nigeria 's annual deforestation rate of natural forest is the highest in the world and puts it on pace to lose virtually all of its primary forest within a few years (Rhett, 2005). Many of the environmental problems encountered globally today, are being attributed to deforestation and subsequent

capitalize on their employees’ ability to innovate. Jung and Hartog, continue to argue that employees can help to improve business performance through their ability to generate ideas and use these as building blocks for new and better products, services and work processes. Therefore, under new work conditions, to create value, every

Examine the ways in which the unique indigenous lifestyles found in wilderness areas are under threat. A significant proportion of the world’s population – about 300 million people – are described as indigenous, or native, peoples. They belong to a rich and diverse array of cultures spread across the globe. Indigenous peoples are defined as the descendents of those people who inhabited an area before it was colonised by Europeans, or before a modern state was established there. Where groups

policies and practices particularly important. People in the developing world are more “closely connected” to the environment than those in developed countries. Since they rely more directly on the extraction of natural resources and use of natural services for their sustenance and economy, their lifestyles have a more direct impact on the immediate ecosystem. Given that “all countries, but especially developing countries…need to enhance their internal capacity to manage their environmental protection

Table of Contents Table of contents……………………………………………………………………………………………1 Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………………………2 Background……………………………………………………………………………………………………3 Project justification……………………………………………………………………………………….4 Project goal……………………………………………………………………………………………..…...6 Success Criteria……..………………………………………………………………………………………7 The project approach…………………………………………………………………………………….8 Risks, Assumptions, and Barriers of the Project………………………………………………9 The Project Activity Plan………………………………………………………………………………

Biodiversity INTRODUCTION Franck and Brownstone define biological diversity as 'the variety and variability of living organisms and the biological communities in which they live' (36). Decades of progress in both the scientific and political arenas have advanced environmental legislation to protect biodiversity at not only the ecosystem level, but for specific species and genetic material as well. Research has shown the importance of every organism and their role in the global ecosystem

Just a few decades ago, there were over 4 million elephants across the world. Today, there are fewer than 500,000. This enormous loss within the elephant population has been largely due to excessive, illegal poaching for their tusks. In the year 1989, two major revelations occurred for the elephants—first, the International Ivory Trade Ban had been accepted worldwide in hopes of slowing down the rapidly depleting elephant population. Second, Kenya’s president at the time, Daniel Arap Moi initiated

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TOURISM | | he quality of the environment, both natural and man-made, is essential to tourism. However, tourism's relationship with the environment is complex. It involves many activities that can have adverse environmental effects. Many of these impacts are linked with the construction of general infrastructure such as roads and airports, and of tourism facilities, including resorts, hotels, restaurants, shops, golf courses and marinas. The negative impacts of tourism

The aim of this essay is to evaluate the main developments of Destination Marketing and critically discuss its effect on tourism industry. Introduction to tourism industry and the role of destination for this sector of economy will be initially demonstrated. Afterwards the role of tourism destination marketing and its origin in the 19th century will be presented, moving on to actual advances in information technology. The main components of destination marketing, identified with its development