Ecotourism and Indonesia's Primates [E-Book]

Tourism and Indonesia's Primates: An Introduction- Similar Perceptions of National and International Volunteer Ecotourists Contribute to the Conservation of the Critically Endangered Javan Slow Loris in Java, Indonesia -- Bukit Lawang and Beyond: Primates and tourism from a provider's perspective -- Rethinking Tolerance to Tourism: Behavioral responses by wild crested macaques (Macaca nigra) to tourists -- The Effect of Tourism on a Nocturnal Primate, Tarsius spectrum, in Indonesia -- Javan Gibbon Tourism: A Review from West and Central Java Initiatives -- Encountering Sulawesi's Endemic Primates: Considerations for developing primate tourism in South Sulawesi, Indonesia -- Primates and Primatologists: Reflecting on two decades of primatological and ethnoprimatological research, tourism, and conservation at the Ubud Monkey Forest -- Primate tourism on Java: 40 years of ebony langur viewing in Pangandaran from homestay visits to mass tourism -- Indigenous BirdEcotourism in Halmahera Island, Indonesia. .

The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on the effect of ecotourism on Indonesia's primates. The tremendous diversity of primates in Indonesia, in conjunction with the conservation issues facing the primates of this region, have created a crisis whereby many of Indonesia's primates are threatened with extinction. Conservationists have developed the concept of "sustainable ecotourism" to fund conservation activities. National parks agencies worldwide receive as much as 84% of their funding from ecotourism. While ecotourism funds the majority of conservation activities, there have been very few studies that explore the effects of ecotourism on the habitat and species that they are designed to protect. It is the burgeoning use of "ecotourism" throughout Indonesia that has created a need for The Ecotourism of Indonesia's Primates where the successes and pitfalls at various sites can be identified and compared.