CONSERVATION and ECOTOURISM ISSUES in DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

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Main Menu:	Home	Conservation	Ecotourism	CaseStudies	References	ClosingThoughts

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Introduction and Mission Statement

We initially started this senior seminar thinking it would be a relatively in-depth look at how conservation and ecotourism issues were viewed. We decided to concentrate on developing countries, as this was topic of interest to us all- each of us having had the good fortune to travel to several of the world’s biological hotspots, and our academic studies have been very ecologically driven.

From the start it was not an easy project. Information galore poured in from each search, but it all dealt with economic ramifications and social concepts and problems and less so with the biological issues. Eventually, after much digging and reading of many very interesting yet unfortunately relatively useless articles, we managed to dig ourselves down to the biological resources.

And thus, we come to the purpose of this website. We designed it for other biology students, professors , and those interested in these issues to use as a springboard and introduction to the topics of conservation and ecotourism in general, and then specifically how they relate to some of the developing countries (mostly in case-study form).

Site Navigation

The website has been divided into our two main topics:

• Conservation
• Ecotourism

Each main page begins with an overall introduction and is then subsequently divided into smaller topics of interest to its main page. The main pages can be accessed through the menu bar that is located at the bottom of each page of the site. A page containing our references can also be accessed from this menu bar.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Mark Pearson (Mad Props!) and Sara Penhale for their technical expertise and assistance as we ran to them randomly and more than likely at odd hours with our many, varied, and confusing research and design questions. Additional thanks to all those family and friends we badgered for their photos in order to make this website a little more “personal”, and to Bill Buskirk for serving as advisor to our senior seminar.

Website researched and designed by:
Josie Caton, Eli Levine (levinel@earlham.edu), Diana Lisensky (lisendi@earlham.edu), and Julie Widholm (widhoju@earlham.edu)
Earlham College Biology Senior Seminar 2004

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