National Parks are Victims of Their Own Success as Locations for Leisure Pursuits
This subject has been a matter of much conjecture for many years as
international tourism spreads to the most endangered and rare
environments across the globe, it is evident that in terms of long
term sustainability, National Park ecosystems are at serious threat
from that posed by industrial tourism.
Physical Degradation
People come to national parks in order to experience the wildlife and
the natural environment. National parks offer an escape from the 21st
century metropolitan lifestyle of stress and deadlines, which is
becoming increasingly popular with many people. These wilderness
destinations have also come into fashion due to the increased emphasis
of celebrity upon the issues concerning global climate sustainability
and global warming. This has lead to the increase in visitors which
whilst it is beneficial for the economies of some of the poorest
places on earth, it is damaging the very environments that people have
come to save.
The problem lies in the necessity for consumer goods; there are very
few travelers who are willing to leave all their creature comforts
behind. The modern consumer society, which utilises disposable goods
and electricity, does not easily fit into the nation park environment.
Despite this, the governments of the nation park areas are keen to
gain the patronage of tourists, as it is likely to provide a very
large source of revenue. Therefore, it would seem that national parks
vicitmise themselves in order to make money.
Increased patronage has also led to problems related to degradation;
in safari areas s...
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from the tourists.
Conclusion
My response to the question of whether Nation Parks are a victim of
their own success is that yes, in most cases nation parks are victims
of their own success due to the amount of money that people realise
they can make from an area. The initial realisation of the market
value of the area means that the owners get carried away and exploit
the area too much. Now, the areas of the world that are nearest to
nature are those that whilst being National Parks, are not successful.
Without intervention any national park that is able to attract large
numbers of people to it will eventually corrupt the initial idea of
protecting the area due to the amount of money to be made. That is why
it is so important to initiate management plans in order to prevent
damaging exploitation.
The article titled Marine Parks by Bill Daly tries to look into various dimensions of the issues related to marine parks and tries to find the answers to them (Daly 1997). The main focus of the article is on the credentials of the marine parks related to various scientific and ethical issues. It is claimed that marine parks violate several social, economic, and ethical norms. They do not make any effective contribution either scientifically or ethically. Therefore, there is no need of keeping these parks open.
In this short essay Bill Daly begins by telling us that he will be assessing arguments to keep marine parks open and he will be point out reasons why they actually don’t carry any weight. The overall conclusion that daily made in this essay was that marine parks should no longer be kept open because they are useless and in some ways can be considered to be animal cruelty or no new animals should be captured for their uses. In the essay I found that there were four major premises that can clearly be found. The first major premises can be found in the second paragraph, where it says that ‘there are many more locations where the marine life can be found naturally compared to marine parks’ (Bill Daly, para 2). The second premise was located in the third paragraph, where the Daly tells us the ‘by moving the marine life out of its natural habitat we are affecting their behaviour and making any research that is conducted on them unreliable when it comes to their natural behaviour’ (para 3). The third major premise that I found was in the fourth paragraph, where it says that the ‘parks could be considered tourist attractions but a majority of tourists come to see wildlife in its natural habitat and not in cages’ (para 4). The fourth and final premise that I found was in the fifth paragraph, in this paragraph Daly says that ‘the parks can be cruel to the animals they hold because they put a restriction the freedom they would normally have in the wild’ (para 5). In the end I believe that Daly has created a good inductive argument against the use and creation of marine parks.
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