Recommended Reading

Post by **planeta** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:21 pm

This topic features recommended reading and recently published news items about tourism and protected areas. Please respect copyright and do NOT post entire articles.
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Post by **planeta** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:10 am

Tourism levy of 0.5 pct urged to protect wildlife - Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/environm ... 0920070625

OSLO (Reuters) - An extra 0.5 percent should be levied on all tourism revenues and spent on protecting animals and plants from threats ranging from loss of habitats to climate change, an environmental expert said on Monday.

Such a charge on tourism, a global industry worth perhaps $6 trillion, would raise $30 billion a year to manage parks on land and at sea, said Peter Prokosch, head of GRID-Arendal, a foundation set up by Norway and the U.N. Environment Program.

Post by **planeta** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:13 am

Twenty-three new sites in 18 countries, including first sites in El Salvador, Qatar and United Arab Emirates, have been added to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves by the Bureau of the International Co-ordinating Council of the MAB Programme that met from 18 to 20 September 2007 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
http://www.unesco.org/mab/BRs/new_BRs2007.shtml