Snake as sister, spectacle or scientific object: connecting the dots for wildlife tourism
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Wednesday to Friday 2-4th October 2013
This workshop celebrated the diversity of wildlife tourism in the Northern Territory, the rest of Australia and elsewhere in the world, and successfully encouraged much discussion on many aspects of the wildlife tourism industry in Australia
Click here for presentations and discussions at the workshop
The pdf of the program and abstracts can be downloaded here: book_absracts_WTA2013
We couldn’t go all the way to Darwin without some tours of the Top End.
Click here for some details and photos of our wonderful pre- and post- workshop field trips Sunset cruise, early bird walks, giant termite mounds, rock paintings (including a Thylacine), weaving pandanus fibres, other Indigenous culture, hill-climbing, crocodiles, plenty of wide open spaces …
Wildlife Tourism workshop
Saltwater crocodile (photo Araucaria Ecotours)
Many thanks to our sponsors:
- Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow and Michael Stott
- Kezia Purick, MLA, NT Gvernment
- Rockllily Wombats
- Jim Smith, Sea Darwin, NT
- Wildlife Rescue Magazine
- also thanks to Mike Jarvis of Experience the Wild, Barry Davies of Gondwana Guides, Peter Wood of James Cook University and Darren Green of Araucaria Ecotours for collecting and delivering delegates from the airport, doing various other errands and driving for field trips, and to Fiona McCaul for taking notes of discussions and Q&A sessions
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