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According to the website Lurj, tourisms to Hawaii can have countless of negative consequences on the environment because of the following reasons:
1. the hotel rooms has been doubled from 65 thousand to 132 thousand which needs a lot of construction and construction can cause climate change
2. 60% of species in Hawaii is endangered because of tourism

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In 2016, the Maldives lost their front line of defense when a beach event affected about 60% of the coral reefs.Without coral reefs, the islands are wide open to the rising waters.

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The Maldives are well known as a bucket list getaway. Hearing the country's name conjures up images of luxury huts overlooking an aqua blue ocean. But climate change may cross the country off the map completely.

The archipelago, which is made up of over 1,100 coral islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is the lowest lying nation in the world. Therefore, sea level rise caused by global climate change is an existential threat to the island nation. At the current rate of global warming, almost 80% of the Maldives could become uninhabitable by 2050, according to multiple reports from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.

"Our islands are slowly being inundated by the sea, one by one," Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, the president of the Maldives, told the U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP26, earlier this week. "If we do not reverse this trend, the Maldives will cease to exist by the end of this century."

The islands that are home to local Maldivians, not the resort islands, stand to lose the most. Mohammed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives and a leading voice for climate change equity, told ABC News that more than 90% of islands in the Maldives have severe erosion, and 97% of the country no longer has fresh groundwater.

Ibrahim Mubbasir and his family live on the island of Dhiffushi. It is suffering from severe erosion, and flooding has increased from two or three times a year to twice a month. Four years ago, the family's well became unusable because of salt water contamination, leaving them to rely on collecting rainwater. Mubbasir said they only have enough fresh water to last for three more months.

"Things that we thought would happen towards the end of the century, we are experiencing now," Aminath Shauna, the Maldives' minister of environment, climate change and technology, told ABC News' Ginger Zee.

Shauna said that more than 50% of the national budget is spent on adapting to climate change. When asked what the Maldives will look like in 2050, Shauna responded, "Are you willing to take the Maldives as climate refugees? I think that's the conversation that needs to happen."

And it's not just the Maldives. Island countries around the world have been asking developed nations for funds since 2009. Countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions -- China, the United States and India -- are mostly responsible for the rapid sea level rise.
Maldives' coral reefs
At the center of the Maldives' culture are their coral reefs.

In 2016, the Maldives lost their front line of defense when a bleaching event affected about 60% of the coral reefs, according to Aya Naseem, a marine biologist and co-founder of the Maldives Coral Institute.

Without coral reefs, the islands are wide open to the rising waters. Naseem said they have one realistic choice: They need to build back and protect the reefs, "because IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is predicting that by 2050 if the temperature rises 1.5 degrees Celsius we can lose 70 to 90% of corals in the whole world."

Research has previously shown that a healthy coral reef can absorb 97% of wave energy, dramatically reducing erosion, and it's affordable, Naseem said.

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"It's much cheaper than building a seawall. I think it costs something like $3,000 to grow a meter of sea wall where for the coral a meter of it is about $300, including monitoring and everything," she said.

Bebe Ahmed, founder of "Save the Beach," travels island to island in the Maldives with the mission of teaching kids about restoring and protecting coral. He told ABC News that his dream is to inspire young Maldivians to want to start their own projects to restore coral reefs.
What's next in the fight?
Technology, like 3D-printed coral structures or a floating city, may have to be part of the solution.

The Maldives is home to the Modular Artificial Reef Structure, or MARS, a coral-forming project on the resort island of Summer Island. to the coral forming project, MARS. The project has 3D-printed bases that are placed in the water with transplant corals attached to them. The hope is that the system is designed with the specific needs of the coral farm in mind, providing a permanent structure for coral to grow.

In the late '90s, the Maldives began construction on the island of Hulhumale through the process of land reclamation. Hulhumale is 6.5 feet above sea level, more than double the height of Male, the current capital of the Maldives. It is possible this island may be a future site for relocation of Maldivians suffering from sea level rise. Maldivians call their manmade island the City of Hope.

The future of the Maldives could also come in the form of a floating city. In 2022, just a few miles from the dense, capital city of Male, construction and assembly will begin on the world's first true floating city. The unique solution will not have to worry about sea level rise, because it will always be on top of the sea.

The project is being developed and led by Dutch Docklands in the Netherlands. Lead architect Koen Olthuis gave ABC News an inside look at how the floating city is designed and what it should eventually look like.

The floating city has a unique pattern, modeled after the brain, both human and coral.

The entire city will shift up and down on a pile drilled into the sea floor. It will also take advantage of its environment to better provide for those living on the floating city.

"By being on the water we want to take advantage of the water -- and using the coolness of the water -- so these are water-cooled cities, for which you take cool water outside the atoll and pump water through the route and activate the air conditioning systems," Olthius said.

Since the floating city is sustainable and leaves no footprint, Olthuis called the floating cities "scarless" and said they are "renting space from nature."

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Facing dire sea level rise threat, Maldives turns to climate change solutions to survive

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The islands could be 80% uninhabitable by 2050 at current global warming rates.

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People around the world had been traveling to france to see the amazing views, and Covid-19 had been spreading fast there. Due to tourism, people in mainland france had lost 1 in 11 jobs lost and that is because refuges spreading the viruses.

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Metal pollution, tourism threaten drinking water around Mount Everest - MINING.COM

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Wind-transported metal pollution from mining paired with activities linked to the tourism industry are causing concern to those that depend on the Khumbu Glacier melt.

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Tourism have caused Tokyo to have more tourism pollution,social disruption, economic issues and environmental problems, waste is increasing more than usual. It is becoming clear that Japan is creating an unsustainable situation and infrastructure has not been upgraded to pace too.

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Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy

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Even though Venice is a wonderful place for you to visit, it is suffering right now. As you know you have to ride boats to get to places in Venice, and due to over-tourism and climate change, it is getting worse, for example, some places in Venice are starting to flood and destroy buildings and houses. Over tourism forced out long-term residents, destroyed jobs not related to the holiday industry, and put a huge strain on housing.

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As more and more tourists arrive at one of the most beautiful and paradise-looking places in the entire world, the Maldives, the Maldives Tourist Minister opened single and uninhabited islands to tourists.

While the islands were not yet released to the tourists construction workers are building luxury hotels with staff members moved from other islands. There were currently more than 90 such resorts opened to tourism and even more are still under construction.

But the thing is, the Maldives are receiving big environmental losses such as loss of habitants, endangered species, and a massive destruction of coral reefs.

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They have become the short-hand for a tropical paradise. A nation of islands off the southern tip of India, the Maldives are the home of cobalt-blue seas and white-sand beaches. Every year the country attracts up to half-a-million tourists in search of a picture-perfect getaway.

But how much is too much? For a country that depends so heavily on tourists lured by the prospect of pristine beauty, at what point does that flood of tourists start to threaten the very environment that attracted them in the first place?

The debate about the sustainability of the country's development and the threat to its environment has been thrown into sharp focus by the resignation of its Tourism Minister over government plans to lease 31 uninhabited islands for new resorts.

Mahmoud Shaugee said he was opposed to the government's plan to lease the untouched islands and had - for the sake of his "conscience" - resigned rather than be forced to pursue a policy that he believed was wrong. "There is only so much that an economy can absorb," he said. "I think it is important that we protect the future of the tourism industry for the people of the Maldives ... I have not specifically detailed the reasons for my resignation but I shared with journalists here that I have a difference of opinion with the government's policy. There are certain issues I have a difference of opinion over and I do not want to move forward with those policies."

A resort typically consists of a single luxury hotel on a previously uninhabited island. So the only people living on the island are the hotel staff, who have moved from other islands and whose families live elsewhere.

There are already 92 such resorts in operation in the Maldives and another 60 are in the process of being built. But the Maldives government, led since 1978 by the authoritarian Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, recently announced plans to lease a further 31 islands for development. The move is at least partly to make up for a budgetary shortfall of about £90m facing the government, caused by the postponement of development of a port in the north of the country with private investment.

Additional bad economic news came in the form of a warning from the International Monetary Fund, which earlier this month said the Maldives government needed to cut its "extraordinarily high level" of expenditure on state wages and subsidies and increase revenue collection. If it did not, it was risking high inflation rates, said the fund.

Confronted with such problems, the new leases would provide the government with an immediate injection of cash from an advance of "bed rents" from each of the islands being set aside for development. But last week Mr Shaugee told a hearing of a government committee that the proposals contravened the government's current tourism master-plan. Effectively the projects would be going ahead "without any planning", he said.

It is hard to overestimate the importance of tourism to the Maldives, a former British colony that gained its independence in 1965 and which consists of 1,192 islands - 250 of them inhabited - located around six atolls. The most recent data suggests that it accounts not only for 28 per cent of GDP but provides 60 per cent of the country's foreign currency earnings. As such, the decision of Mr Shaugee to stand down will be a fresh embarrassment to the government of Mr Gayoom. It represents the sixth ministerial resignation in the past 18 months. Just last week, the country's Finance Minister also quit after the budget shortfall was officially announced.

But beyond that, Mr Shaugee's decision has been seized on by campaigners who argue that the development of tourism is being carried out at a pace the country cannot maintain. Furthermore, they say, environmental issues have never been a priority for the government, to the extent that environmental impact assessments for new resorts are often carried out after the completion of the project rather than before.

Ali Rilwan is a founding member of Bluepeace, an environmental campaign group set up in the Maldives two decades ago to ensure that the natural environment was used wisely and continued to be available for the benefit and enjoyment of future generations.

He said the country, which has a population of around 360,000, was facing a host of environmental problems, including the loss of habitats of endangered species and the destruction of its coral reefs. Yet all the while the development of the tourism industry was going ahead "wholesale". "We need nature reserves," he said. "We need some areas to be protected as reserves. A lot of the ecology that is vital to the island has been lost to tourism. It has been happening without consultation. No environmental assessments are done before, only after. This is the scary scenario."

For all its natural beauty, experts say the environment and ecology of the Maldives is remarkably fragile. They say the growth of tourism has already had an impact on the island's limited water resources and has damaged coral reefs, which help protect the islands from erosion.

Yet perhaps most terrifying is the threat the Maldives is facing from rising sea levels caused by global warming. While Male is surrounded by a 3m-high wall that cost more than £30m to build and took 14 years to complete, around 80 per cent of the country's islands are no more than one metre above sea level. In the immediate aftermath of the Asian tsunami, up to 40 per cent of the Maldives was left lying under water. Remarkably only about 100 people were killed but the incident provided the government with the impetus to draw up plans to relocate people from the lower-lying islands to some of the larger ones. In Kandholhudhoo, a densely populated island in the north of the country, about 60 per cent of residents have already volunteered to evacuate over the next 15 years.

The government wishes to see a total of 60 per cent of its inhabitants relocated to higher islands, where two and three-storey buildings will be built. But plans have not gone without a hitch. Confronted with the rising population on Male, which is home to about 100,000 people but which measures just one mile square and counts as one of the most densely populated cities on the planet, the government constructed a new, rectangular-shaped island from sand dredged from the seabed and dumped in the shallows near a reef. It had hoped that the new island, named Hulhumale and more than two metres above sea level, might attract up to 150,000 people lured by the prospect of cheaper rental prices, more space and greater protection against rising tides. So far it has just 5,000 residents.

The dire tidal threat may explain the government's decision to try to lure as many tourists as possible to the islands while they are still above water. Mr Shaugee, however, says that tourists could still be persuaded to come to resorts that had been developed on islands that already had some habitation. This would have two advantages, he said. Not only would it help preserve the environment of those islands that had not yet been developed but it would also mean that resort workers would be able to live at home with their families. As for the tourists, the slice of the tropics they were getting may no longer be completely untouched, but it would still be paradise.
A brief guide to the Maldives
* GEOGRAPHY

Situated in the Indian Ocean, the Maldives is a collection of about 1,200 islands with a population of 360,000. A former British protectorate, the country gained independence in 1965 and became a republic in 1968 following the abolition of its monarchy.

* ECONOMY

Almost 30 per cent of the country's GDP comes from tourism, with Britain providing the most visitors. The majority of the islands are uninhabited, and tourists are only allowed to leave the capital, Male, to visit other inhabited islands for brief periods.

* POLITICAL SYSTEM

President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is the longest serving ruler in Asia and has ruled the country since 1978. He has been accused by human rights groups of running an autocratic state and in 2003 the country suffered its worst ever anti-government rioting following the deaths of four prison inmates. In 2005 opposition parties were legalised, and in 2006 Mr Gayoom presented a "roadmap" of democratic reforms. These included promises to hold the Maldives' first presidential elections, due to take place later this year. Currently, a single presidential candidate is chosen by parliament, and voters can only choose "Yes"or "No".

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The march of tourism (and a threat to the Maldives)

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They have become the short-hand for a tropical paradise. A nation of islands off the southern tip of India, the Maldives are the home of cobalt-blue seas and white-sand beaches. Every year the country attracts up to half-a-million tourists in search of a picture-perfect getaway. But how much is too much?

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Barcelona is facing environmental problems due to over-tourism. In June 2019, Barcelona was named the number one most polluted port in Europe, with the highest amounts of sulphur oxide and carcinogenic nitrogen oxide coming from visiting cruise ships. Cruise ships are a particular problem because they run on fuel oil, which contains far more sulphur oxide than ordinary diesel. This means that in 2017, visiting cruise ships gave off nearly five times as much sulphur oxide as all of Barcelona’s cars.

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Barcelona's controversial mayor Ada Colau pledged this week to reduce the number of tourists allowed into Barcelona by cutting cruise ships and limiting the expansion of its airport. It's part of an ongoing battle against perceived overtourism and the balance between keeping communities financially alive without destroying their fabric.

Barcelona is the self-styled capital city of the Mediterranean and a victim of its own success. As thereported in 2016, the number of visitors making overnight stays in the city increased from 1.7 million in 1990 to more than 8 million in 16 years.

That's an astonishing increase for a city that is not as big as other European equivalents, such as Paris or London, and where many of the major tourist sites such as Sagrada Familia and Parc Güell are in residential areas where space to expand simply doesn't exist.

Put simply, Barcelona has no room to grow and people just keep coming. No number of pavement expansions and bus rerouting can solve the fundamental issue that tourism is the number one problem for the city. What's more, the lack of affordable housing (perceived as Barcelona's second biggest problem) is exacerbated by the growth in tourism. There has been a flood of Airbnb properties onto the market, reducing the amount of long-term property available to city residents.

This influx of people leads to environmental problems. The city council declared an environmental emergency this week and will limit vehicles entering the city center to curb air pollution, but cars are the least of their pollution problems.

In June 2019, Barcelona was named the number one most polluted port in Europe, with the highest amounts of sulphur oxide and carcinogenic nitrogen oxide coming from visiting cruise ships. Cruise ships are a particular problem because they run on fuel oil, which contains far more sulphur oxide than ordinary diesel. This means that in 2017, visiting cruise ships gave off nearly five times as much sulphur oxide as all of Barcelona's cars.

The mayor of Barcelona is well placed to pick such a fight. Colau was first elected to post in 2015 after setting up a grass-roots organization to fight on behalf of citizens who were losing their homes because they were unable to pay their mortgages or who were threatened with eviction. She testified at a government hearing, called out the deputy general secretary of the Spanish Banking association in a clip which went viral propelling her to election victory when polls showed that 90% of the country believed the financial sector was to blame.

Once in office, she tried to slash her salary from €140,000 to €28,600 (parliament blocked her from reducing her salary below €100,000 but she promised to give the rest to charity). The Guardian reported that she "restored school meal subsidies to the city's poorest children, and levied fines worth a total of €60,000 on banks that owned vacant properties" and also spent nights sleeping on the street with the homeless to raise awareness. Buzzfeed has called her a "badass."

In 2014, Colau wrote about how Barcelona was sacrificing itself on the "altar of mass tourism" and she promised to try to curb the problem, saying:

There's a sense that Barcelona could risk losing its soul. We need to seek a fair balance between the best version of globalisation, and keeping the character, identity and life of the city. This is what makes it attractive-it is not a monumental city, and it is not a world capital like Paris-its main feature is precisely its life, its plurality, its Mediterranean diversity. We want visitors to get to know the real Barcelona, not a 'Barcelona theme park' full of McDonald's and souvenirs, without any real identity."

It is not the only dramatic environmental project that the city is undertaking. In the 1980s, the local government conceived the idea of dividing the city into superblocks to encourage community cohesiveness and reduce noise and other negative environmental issues, which decrease residents' quality of life.

As Vox explained:

The basic idea of a superblock is to delineate a large area of roughly three-by-three blocks as shared-use space, with bicyclists, pedestrians, and people who simply want to sit at picnic tables in the street given equal priority to cars. Nonresident automobile through traffic is excluded.

This quite radical idea to reclaim the streets, reduce noise levels and environmental pollution and to foster a sense of community was given a renewed impetus when Colau came to power and superblocks have been written into the city's urbanization plan. Barcelona is planning 500 superblocks to solve part of its environmental problems , the fourth of which has just been completed.

Barcelona is not the only city under pressure to reduce or limit its tourism-the Netherlands Tourist Board have stopped promoting several places such as Amsterdam to tourists because of overcrowding and littering, residents in the Big Sur, California, Venice is considering closing its main canal to cruise ships because of the negative environmental repercussions to the city's foundations and just this week, were protesting against overtourism.

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Barcelona Is Threatening To Shut Out Tourists

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Barcelona's controversial mayor Ada Colau pledged this week to reduce the number of tourists allowed into Barcelona by cutting cruise ships and limiting the expansion of its airport. It's part of an ongoing battle against perceived overtourism and the balance between keeping communities financially alive without destroying their fabric.

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The status quo of the protection and utilization of the Great Wall is described in a lyric, which is "mixed with joy and sorrow" - in recent years, some collapsed or damaged Great Walls are being gradually repaired in mountainous areas and inaccessible places. However, although the government has taken various measures to strengthen the protection and repair of the Great Wall, the status quo is still unsatisfactory: some Great Walls lack protection and repair, and dangers continue.

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According to marine scientist ARC, the Great Barrier Reef has lost 50 percent of its corals since 1995 due to over-tourism and climate change. People from around the world have come here leaving different types of trash there and affecting the climate underwater in the Great Barrier Reef.

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How 'Coral IVF' Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef

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Researcher Peter Harrison is reseeding the Great Barrier Reef using a process he likens to in vitro fertilization (IVF) for coral. It could help reefs around the world.

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Venice used to be flooded with people, back in the 1960s there weren't that many people since it was an expensive trip to Venice but nowadays people have lower down the price and it is more affordable which isn't a good thing. Local people would describe Venice as an amusement park and as killing the local people and Venice's environment. Each day, more pollution is produced in Venice and most of it comes from tourists. You may be able to see tons of plastic bottles and plastic bags laying on the ground. Also, Venice is flooding nowadays because there is an increase in water levels as a result of man-made climate change.

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Amazon Rainforest - Codajás, State of Amazonas, Brazil

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As you know the Amazon is suffering right now because of tourists who don't care about it. But now some tourists are trying to help save the Amazon rainforest. Tourists are helping it by making other local industries more profitable.

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The Amazon rainforest is losing land to deforestation, but tourism can help reverse this by making other local industries more profitable.

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FOTO: Un incendio forestal en el Amazonas. (foto de Brasil2 / E+ Getty Images)

With an alarming number of fires raging in the Brazilian rainforest in 2019, there's been a flurry of stories detailing how individuals might take action to help save and protect this precious and irreplaceable natural resource.

Since January more than 70,000 fires have been recorded in Brazil's Amazon rainforest - a staggering figure that represents an increase of 84 percent over 2018, according to the National Institute for Space Research.

People around the world have watched in horror and dismay as the fires rage on, as by many accounts, destruction of the forests may very well speed up climate change.

Perhaps even more troubling, the region's traditional fire season has merely just begun. According to the World Resources Institute, 62 percent of forest fires in Brazil typically take place between September and year's end.

While several factors are contributing to the fires, the primary trigger is deforestation undertaken by loggers and also ranchers who are clearing land for cattle grazing to support meat production.

All of which can seem very discouraging for those wishing to help in some way. But as many articles have already pointed out, there are numerous things that can be done from afar to help.

One of the most direct and tangible steps you can take is to reduce beef consumption. Specifically, Brazilian beef, which is majorly contributing to deforestation. By some estimates, 70 percent of deforestation in the Amazon is due to cattle ranching.

There are also numerous organizations you can support financially, whose efforts are focused on protecting the rainforests and supporting local, indigenous communities.

A recent CNBC article identified some of the top non-profits working in the region including Rainforest Alliance; Rainforest Foundation US; Earth Alliance; Amazon Watch and Amazon Conservation Team.

Rainforest Action Network's Protect-An-Acre (PAA) is another important program you can support financially.

Since 1993, the Protect-an-Acre program has distributed more than $1 million in grants to more than 150 frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world, according to the RAN website.

Reducing your meat consumption and supporting the efforts of non-profits are really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to impacting the survival of the planet's rainforests. There are many other lifestyle choices and changes you can make as well. For instance, you could actively work to use less paper on a daily basis, thus reducing the need for cutting so many trees.

Still, other options include not buying wood that comes from a rainforest (avoid mahogany, rosewood, and ebony.)

You might also consider selecting sustainably sourced fruits and vegetables and other foods. Hint: look for the Rainforest Alliance Certified symbol on food packaging.

As important as all of these efforts are, none of them touch upon how travelers specifically may play a role in helping to protect and preserve the Amazon rainforest for future generations.

Justin Frances, CEO of Responsible Travel, recently told TravelPulse that travel has a critical role in this pressing issue.

"A visit to the Amazon can contribute to making the case for protecting the rainforest for responsible tourism versus logging, deforestation, and mining," began Francis.

Recent research in Tambopata, in the Peruvian rainforest, analyzed the profitability per hectare of tourism versus crop and cow farming, logging and mining, added Francis.

The research, from faunalytics, found that ecotourism is actually more profitable in the long term than any other common use of the land.

Unsustainable logging, on the other hand, was determined to be more profitable than ecotourism in the short run-but after five years of logging activity, there are simply no more trees left to harvest, and logging becomes impossible, states the report.

"You can make a quick buck from logging in the short term, but this destroys the forest and leaves the land unusable," Francis continued.

Interestingly, the study also found that ecotourism can make other local industries more profitable. Which stands to reason.

A small nature preserve next to a town or a logging site, for example, is far less appealing to visitors than a larger area that's been preserved, states the report.

Looking for trips that allow you to show your support for the Amazon?

Responsible Travel offers Amazon holidays designed to ensure your money is making a political and economic point about conservation, as well as benefitting local communities and biodiversity.

Adventure Life is another company that offers Amazon experiences.

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With an alarming number of fires raging in the Brazilian rainforest in 2019, there's been a flurry of stories detailing how individuals might take action to help save and protect this precious and irreplaceable natural resource.

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Tourism has created environmental impacts in El Nido including diminishing water quality, and biodiversity loss. However, the local government is fighting these issues in a number of ways, including limiting tour group sizes and monitoring water pollution.

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El Nido’s balancing act: Managing nature and tourism

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The national and local governments are putting in place measures to minimize the negative impact of tourism pressure on El Nido