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Shooting fish in a barrel: Tourists as easy targets Research Completed

Title

Shooting fish in a barrel: Tourists as easy targets

Lead Author

Shelton, E.J. & McKinlay, B.

Organisation(s)

Otago University

Publication Year

2008

Publisher

Oxford: CABI Publishing

Contacts

Eric J. Shelton, Assistant Lecturer, Otago University: eric.shelton@otago.ac.nz

Available in: Marine wildlife and tourism management: insights from the natural and social sciences, Pages: 219-230

Publisher, CAB International; Wallingford; UK: www.cabi.org

CABI Book listing: http://bookshop.cabi.org/default.aspx?site=191&page=2633&pid=2061

Abstract

This chapter describes some aspects of the relationship between wildlife, particularly yellow-eyed penguins (YEPs) (Megadyptes antipodes), and visitors at Sandfly Bay, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand. It is demonstrated that YEPs probably have always been, and still are, subjected to chronic and acute disturbance from other species with which they share the coastal environment. Even without nature tourists at Sandfly Bay, penguins face major challenges throughout their life course. The chapter explores the potential application of the precautionary principle to some management issues that emerge from this consideration of wildlife-visitor relationships.

Keywords:

Tourism, Impact, Tourism management, Wildlife, Visitors, New Zealand, Otago, Sandfly bay, Penguins

How to access

In J.E.S. Higham and M. Lück (Eds.), Marine wildlife and tourism management. Oxford: CABI Publishing.

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