scholarly journals Parks for people—a case study from the Aïr Mountains of Niger

Oryx ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Newby
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
The Other ◽  
North Central ◽  
Struthio Camelus ◽  
National Nature Reserve

The Aïr Mountains of north-central Niger are relatively unspoilt and contain some of the last remaining populations of addax Addax nasomaculatus, ostrich Struthio camelus and dama gazella Gazella dama in in West Africa. The Aïr Mountain are also home for some 5000 Twaregs, half of whom are cultivators and the other half herders. The Aïr and Tùnùrù National Nature Reserve, which was gazetted in 1988, covers more than 77,000 sq km. It was inspired by concern for the region's unique and increasingly threatened wildlife, wcology. The Nigerien Wildlife Service and the IUCN/WWF project that supports the reserve are attempting to reconcile conservation with development through a broadly based programme geared to protection, resoration and sustainable use of the area's natural resources.

scholarly journals Assessing sustainable use of wild medicinal plants: a case study in the Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve (NRWNNR), Yunnan/China

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solveig Franziska Bucher ◽  
Abdolbaset Ghorbani ◽  
Gerhard Langenberger ◽  
Manfred Küppers ◽  
Joachim Sauerborn
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
River Watershed ◽  
National Nature Reserve

scholarly journals From the Orchard to the Full Bottle: One of the Geostories of the Nature & Geopark Styrian Eisenwurzen

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-155
Author(s):  
Oliver Gulas ◽  
Eva Maria Vorwagner ◽  
Martina Pásková
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Local People ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Landscape Conservation ◽  
Local Production

Abstract A geopark mission does not consists just of presenting and interpreting the geological phenomena and processes, but it also includes conservation and sustainable use of the natural resources as well as understanding and supporting the local people and their culture. For sure, the geology of the area determinates the local flora and fauna as well as the local life style. On different examples, this case study presents how the Nature and Geopark Styrian Eisenwurzen is involving local people to protect the local geoheritage and natural resources as well as to raise its visibility and touristic attraction. It shows that the traditional local production can contribute both to the landscape conservation and geoheritage interpretation, and that the application of participatory management and ABC interpretive concept can affect all that in a synergic way.

scholarly journals Sports and Health as Cornerstones of Tourism Development: Case Study of Montenegro

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anđela Jakšić-Stojanović ◽  
Neven Šerić
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
International Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
High Quality

The modern phenomenon of tourism is more focused on specific forms of tourism in which sports and health tourism play a very important role. That fact is not surprising having in mind that they represent interconnected activities that complement each other and give each other completely new dimension. On one side, sports and health represent very important content of tourist offer because of the fact they enable tourists to become active participants in various activities, and on the other side, they represent important driving force for visiting particular destination. The idea of this chapter is to provide a theoretical and practical framework of this issue with a special focus on case study of Montenegro. According to the results of the research that was carried out, the general conclusion is that Montenegro has extremely valuable natural resources and potentials for the development of sports and health tourism, but there are still a lot of challenges that should be faced in the future in order to improve the quality of tourist offer and the level of tourists’ satisfaction as well as to create completely new image of the destination and position it as high-quality sports and health tourist destination on international market.

scholarly journals Rhetorical Construction of West Africain Travels In West Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-216
Author(s):  
Shuv Raj Rana Bhat
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Vegetation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rhetorical Construction ◽  
Mary Kingsley

Viewed from David Spurr’s lenses developed in “The Rhetoric of Empire,” Mary Kingsley produces knowledge of West Africa and establishes a claim over her in her travelogue Travels in West Africa. Through the deployment of surveillance, appropriation, debasement and negation, she draws an ambivalent picture of Africa: one associated with filth, defilement, danger, darkness and death and the other endowed with natural vegetation and resources. Both sides of the picture call for the arrival of the British to improve the lifestyle of the Africans and to utilize the natural resources.

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