Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2001)
Reporting Period: 2001
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Wildlife Conservation
- Sustainable Tourism
Social Achievements
- Dissemination of research findings to tourism industry and conservation managers.
Governance Achievements
- Peer review of research reports by at least two external reviewers.
Climate Goals & Targets
Long-term Goals:
- Ensure long-term sustainability of wildlife tourism through comprehensive management and monitoring.
Medium-term Goals:
- Conduct further research to understand and predict impacts, and assess effectiveness of management approaches.
Short-term Goals:
- Develop user-friendly monitoring techniques and guidelines for Australian conditions.
Environmental Challenges
- Negative effects of wildlife tourism on wildlife populations, behavior, and welfare.
- Disruption of wildlife activity (spotlighting, noise, tourist approach).
- Direct killing or injury (road accidents, hunting, collecting).
- Habitat alteration (land clearing, food provision).
Mitigation Strategies
- Management actions focusing on visitor and operator management (numbers, spatial/temporal distribution, behavior, expectations, attitudes).
- Physical structures to 'harden' the environment.
- Regulation (government or industry).
- Economic instruments.
- Education and marketing.
- Use of environmentally responsible operators.
- Cooperative agreements between management agencies and operators.
- Monitoring and evaluation.