Ameliorating global warming through sustainable ecotourism development

Abstract

Issues of global warming are currently inciting much talk, conferences, committee meetings and news in the international community, instead of actions towards ameliorating the problem. In the interim, our earth is getting warmer by the
second, the hole in the Ozone layer increasing and allowing more cosmic rays than the earth can bear. Ecotourism depends heavily on the preservation of biodiversity (especially forest). Tropical forest in particular, plays a crucial role in regulating
climate and determining the health of the atmosphere. They act as Carbon sinks and absorb atmospheric pollution; their destruction by fire also contributes immensely to the ‘greenhouse effect’. Sustainable ecotourism development requires humans
to view themselves as elements of a larger entity; it is rooted in ensuring that the planet’s ecosystems (biodiversity) are protected from the ravages of human civilization. This paper seeks to contribute information to the promotion of ecotourism development as a means to atmospheric pollution and global warming reduction. The earth needs biodiversity to help reduce global warming,
governments and their citizens, especially in the developing countries where a greater proportion of tropical forests are located need the financial and employment empowerment which sustainable ecotourism development provide. This is a compromise situation, benefiting the host countries of tropical forests and helping to ameliorate global warming for the benefit of the whole world. Host countries of tropical forests, should be assisted to sacrifice their tropical forest to save the earth BUT not at the cost of their own existence. No country will.