Black rhinoceros avoidance of tourist infrastructure and activity: planning and managing for coexistence

• Published in: Oryx
• Main Authors: Muntifering, Jeff R., Naidoo, Robin, Uri-Khob, Simson, Du Preez, Pierre, Beytell, Petrus, Jacobs, Shayne, Knight, Andrew T., Linklater, Wayne L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2019
• Subjects: Conservation tourism; Diceros bicornis; Disturbance; Ecotourism; Evidence-based management; Rhinoceros; Sustainable tourism; Zone of influence; Rangifer tarandus; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/126504; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605318001606

CITATION: untifering, J., Linklater, W., Naidoo, R., !Uri-≠Khob, S., Du Preez, P., Beytell, P., . . . Knight, A. (2021). Black rhinoceros avoidance of tourist infrastructure and activity: Planning and managing for coexistence. Oryx, 55(1), 150-159. doi:10.1017/S0030605318001606 The original publication is available at: cambridge.org Wildlife-based tourism has been described as a key conservation mechanism (Buckley & Castley, Reference Buckley and Castley2012; Coghlan et al., Reference Coghlan, Buckley and Weaver2012; Buckley et al., Reference Buckley, Morrison and Castley2016) and has increased globally (Tapper, Reference Tapper2006), particularly in developing countries (Balmford et al., Reference Balmford, Beresford, Green, Naidoo, Walpole and Manica2009). However, such tourism can have negative consequences for the wildlife intended to benefit from it. For example, previous studies found the mountain caribou Rangifer tarandus is displaced from preferred habitat by snowmobiles (Seip et al., Reference Seip, Johnson and Watts2007) and the Asian rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis by elephant-borne tourists (Lott & Mccoy, Reference Lott and Mccoy1995). Declines in bottlenose dolphin Tursiops sp. abundance linked to tourism (Bejder et al., Reference Bejder, Samuels, Whitehead, Gales, Mann and Connor2006) and increased risks to human safety through habituation of brown bears Ursus arctos (Penteriani et al., Reference Penteriani, López-bao, Bettega, Dalerum, Delgado and Jerina2017) have also been reported. A growing demand for experiences that provide opportunities to interact directly and in close proximity with wildlife (Higham et al., Reference Higham, Bejder and Lusseau2009) has inspired research aiming to quantify the direct impacts of human–wildlife encounters (Buckley, Reference Buckley2011). However, human activity (including conservation-oriented tourism) occurring within wildlife habitat often creates so-called zones of influence in which certain wildlife species may be displaced from otherwise ...