Study yields 'good news' on shark diving tourism
Yet another good example to show how tourism can save mother nature, i.e. eco-tourism. Here, the infamously endangered sharks are given a retrieve/sanctuary as revenue can be obtained through shark diving tourism....Note that Mother Nature is not just about carbon emissions and the cutting down of trees, but also the animals.....
Relate to qns on tourism or the Cambridge compre on tourism that came out last year....
Here is the full article:
Study yields 'good news' on shark diving tourism
Whether it is cage diving with white sharks in South Africa or shark feeding in the Bahamas, new research by scientists at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Florida International University has found human interactions not to have any long-term behavioural impact on sharks.
The researchers went to Palmyra, an atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, where shark populations are healthy, fishing is not allowed and the majority of its near-pristine underwater world is rarely dived.
Researchers surveyed sharks by lowering cameras to the ocean floor .
"After reviewing 80 hours of underwater footage taken from video surveys conducted in 2015 - 14 years after Palmyra was established as a wildlife refuge and scientific diving activities began - we found that shark abundance and shark behaviour were the same at sites with and without a long history of scuba diving," said co-author of the study Jennifer Caselle.
Lead author Darcy Bradley added that the results of the study are "good news".
"It means that well-regulated shark diving tourism doesn't necessarily undermine shark-conservation goals."
Compiled by Carolyn Khew
Relate to qns on tourism or the Cambridge compre on tourism that came out last year....
Here is the full article:
Study yields 'good news' on shark diving tourism
Whether it is cage diving with white sharks in South Africa or shark feeding in the Bahamas, new research by scientists at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Florida International University has found human interactions not to have any long-term behavioural impact on sharks.
The researchers went to Palmyra, an atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, where shark populations are healthy, fishing is not allowed and the majority of its near-pristine underwater world is rarely dived.
Researchers surveyed sharks by lowering cameras to the ocean floor .
"After reviewing 80 hours of underwater footage taken from video surveys conducted in 2015 - 14 years after Palmyra was established as a wildlife refuge and scientific diving activities began - we found that shark abundance and shark behaviour were the same at sites with and without a long history of scuba diving," said co-author of the study Jennifer Caselle.
Lead author Darcy Bradley added that the results of the study are "good news".
"It means that well-regulated shark diving tourism doesn't necessarily undermine shark-conservation goals."
Compiled by Carolyn Khew
posted by Dark Shadow | 12:18 PM
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