Pets at ecotourism destinations: cute mascot or trojan horse?
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| Date | 2019-08 | ||||||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Author(s) | Bessa Eduardo1, 2, Blumstein Daniel T.3, Samia Diogo S. M.4, Geffroy Benjamin5 | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation(s) | 1 : Univ Brasilia, Life & Earth Sci Area, FUP, Brasilia, DF, Brazil. 2 : Univ Brasilia, Grad Program Ecol, Biol Inst, Brasilia, DF, Brazil. 3 : Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Los Angeles, CA USA. 4 : Univ Sao Paulo, Biosci Inst, Dept Ecol, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 5 : Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, IFREMER,MARBEC, Palavas Les Flots, France. |
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| Source | Current Issues In Tourism (1368-3500) (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd), 2019-08 , Vol. 22 , N. 13 , P. 1523-1525 | ||||||||||||
| DOI | 10.1080/13683500.2018.1449192 | ||||||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Keyword(s) | Cat, conservation, dog, invasive species, tourism | ||||||||||||
| Abstract | Alien species are threatening native fauna worldwide and cats and dogs have well-documented deleterious impacts on wildlife. Ecotourism operators often live and raise their pets in natural reserves. Here we discuss how pets add to the list of potential negative impacts of ecotourism and provide recommendations to control or attenuate such impacts. | ||||||||||||
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