Does flagship species tourism benefit conservation? A case study of the golden snub-nosed monkey in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve
Does flagship species tourism benefit conservation? A case study of the golden snub-nosed monkey in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve
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旗舰物种旅游有利于保护吗？
DOI：
10.1007/s11434-011-4613-x
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发表时间：
2011-08-01
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Li Ming
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作者：
Xiang ZuoFu;Yu Yang;Li Ming
旅游业已被广泛用作一种保护战略，直接补偿当地人民或管理当局，从而促进发展和创造保护景观的激励。有旗舰物种居住的保护区或公园可能比没有这些物种的保护区或公园能够通过旅游产生更多的收入，因为旗舰物种有很大的潜力为保护目标筹集资金和宣传。本文以神农架国家级自然保护区金丝猴为研究对象，对其旗舰物种旅游进行了研究。该计划于2006年启动后，SNNR的游客数量和收入金额都有所增加，该国旅游收入的总体趋势也有所增加。因此，SNNR显著增加了对旅游和保护基础设施的再投资。此外，在高级政治家参观了金丝猴之后，他们突然改变了对生物保护的态度，这表明了物种保护的常规和额外资金的增加。我们的结论是，旗舰物种旅游不仅可以为保护和管理创造收入，而且可以改善官员对保护生物多样性的态度。然而，从人类和动物的角度来看，确保这些项目的持续安全和可持续性是很重要的，我们建议采取更严格的措施，以减少游客将气溶胶疾病传播给猴子的风险。
Tourism has been widely used as a conservation strategy that directly compensates local people or management authorities, thereby contributing to development and creating incentives to preserve the landscape. Reserves or parks that are inhabited by flagship species may be able to generate more revenue through tourism than those without such species because flagship species have great potential for raising funds and creating publicity for conservation goals. In this paper, we examine flagship species tourism focused on observing the golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve (SNNR). After the program was launched in 2006, both the number of tourists and amount of revenue received by SNNR increased as the general trends of tourism revenue in the country also increased. As a result, SNNR significantly increased reinvestment in tourism and conservation infrastructure. Furthermore, after senior politicians visited the golden snub-nosed monkey, they abruptly changed their attitudes toward biological conservation, as indicated by an increase in both regular and additional funding for the species conservation. We conclude that flagship species tourism may not only generate revenue for conservation and management but also can improve officials' attitudes toward preserving biodiversity. However, it is important to ensure the continued safety and sustainability of such programs, from both the human and animal perspective, and we suggest stricter measures are introduced to reduce the risk of aerosol disease transmission from tourists to the monkeys.