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In recent years, due to the oversaturation of the population, the development behavior caused by the needs of the people’s livelihood has led to the excessive use of resources and at the same time caused a large number of destruction of biological habitats, and the number and type of living beings have declined sharply. Therefore, how to carry out environmental conservation, species restoration, and habitat restoration has become an important issue for the current government to promote conservation strategies. This chapter uses the philosophy of the East and the West to explain that the East maintains the ecological resources with the spirit of benevolence, “things and me are endless;” while the West is based on religious doctrines and hopes that human beings will cherish the idea that God has given resources for conservation. Establish a conservation framework based on natural resource management. This chapter takes the case of domestic ecotourism destination Restoration as an example to discuss the conservation of ecotourism destinations. First, the theoretical basis of natural resource management is analyzed, and species conservation is one of the evaluation criteria. The process of analyzing the minimum survivable population and ethnic survivability in species conservation is explained. In addition, through the debate on the concepts of landscape ecology and island biogeography, the concept of “several small patches vs. large patches” is discussed (Fahrig in Global Ecol Biogeogr 29:615–628, 2020; Järvinen in Oikos 301–307, 1982; McNeill and Fairweather in J Biogeogr 20:429–440, 1993). Do you need to protect large undeveloped patchiness? Or are there several small- and medium-sized pitchinesses reserved in an area? And connect small pitchinesses to form a “stepping stones” system, as a temporary habitat (i.e., stopover) during species migration, forming a relatively stable ecosystem. This chapter uses the basic concepts of conservation and restoration to allow readers to understand the differences in the characteristics of humanities and natural landscapes in planning and incorporates the concept of ecological assessment to become the basis for the overall examination of environmental planning and restoration in ecology.
Ecotourism is a specific kind of tourism, distinguished from nature tourism and outdoor recreation by its conservation and development.
Amanda Stronza, Conservationist, Ecotourism for Conservation? 2019.
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Fang, WT., Hassan, A., Horng, M. (2023). Conservation and Restoration of Ecotourism Destinations. In: Ecotourism. Sinophone and Taiwan Studies, vol 7. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9097-9_6
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