tourism industry
Goa is a tourist hotspot but at what cost? Notes from a hotelier's diary
Largescale development and concretisation has led to Goa being over-exploited and has left the low-lying coastal areas at significant risk due to climate change.
Travel industry takes crucial first step toward combating climate change
More than 300 travel companies, tourism boards and countries have signed the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism, the first step for a shared road map to cut carbon emissions.
The elk, the tourists, and the missing coal country jobs
A proposed wildlife center got a $12 million federal grant after promising to bring millions of dollars and thousands of tourists to eastern Kentucky. Four years later, residents are still waiting for the jobs they were promised.
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The pandemic has revealed cracks in the foundation of conservation funding. What should we do instead?
With COVID-19 upending conventional sources of conservation funding, conservationists are rethinking how to fund their work.
Oil and gas companies want to drill near Utah national parks
The potential sites near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and Bears Ears National Monument would cover more than 150,000 acres.
www.theatlantic.com
The situation in Puerto Rico is untenable
Although the effort to rebuild Puerto Rico has made progress, the island is still confronting questions of status, economics, and emigration that Hurricane Maria helped expose.
www.dw.com
Tanzania′s biggest wildlife reserve under threat
Despite major backlash from conservationists, the Tanzanian government plans to start building a hydropower dam inside a UNESCO-protected wildlife reserve this July. More than 2.6 million trees face the chop.
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