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Best Practice for Your Wildlife Tourism Business
This section features information for wildlife tourism business operators who are interested in enhancing the wildlife experiences they provide to their guests whilst minimising disturbance to the animals. It features - viewing guidelines, best practice management guidelines and information on accreditation schemes in Australia.
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How to make the most of your wildlife experiences - ensuring safety, visitor satisfaction and minimal disturbance to the animals .
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Guidelines to help you to manage your wildlife experiences for the benefit of the visitor, the animals and the business.
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Information on accreditation for your business.
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Guidelines on the management of wild bird feeding. It includes a review of the impacts of feeding on birds, and of the Queensland legislation relating to this issue. This document is kindly provided by Michelle Plant of Wildlife Interactions. Please click on the link above to download the guidelines.
| List of Wildlife Viewing Guidelines |
A searchable spreadsheet of guidelines for managing wildlife tourism from Australia and Internationally. The spreadsheets feature a clickable link so that you can be taken directly to the electronic version of the guidelines!
Click on the links below to download the list which includes two spreadsheets - the list of guidelines and the accompanying codes.
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| NEW!!! Wildlife Tourism Bibliography |
This is a searchable spreadsheet of wildlife tourism related references from Australia and Internationally.
The references are classified according to the following categories and can be sorted and searched extensively:
LOCATION - indicates geographical focus of the reference
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Australia |
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Overseas |
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Non-specific |
DISCIPLINE - indicates disciplinary areas that apply in the reference (usually contains several)
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General |
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Business |
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Conservation benefits |
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Economics |
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Ethics |
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Guidelines copies |
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Guidelines literature |
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Hosts |
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Indigenous |
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Interpretation |
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Visitors |
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Tourism impacts |
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Wildlife tourism impacts |
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Wildlife management |
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Wildlife feeding |
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Aggression |
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Operation |
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Products |
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Conservation Other |
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Marketing |
SUBSECTOR - indicates the sector of wildlife tourism that the reference is focused upon
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Nature-based Tourism |
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Un-Specific WT |
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Birdwatching |
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Fishing |
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Hunting |
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Land viewing |
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Marine viewing |
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Zoos |
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Cetacea |
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Kangaroo Island and Seals |
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Mon Repos and Turtles |
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Phillip Island and Penguins |
Click on the link below to download the Wildlife Tourism bibliography
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