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Wildlife tourism booms as people holiday in UK
"Wildlife tourism in Scotland is bucking the trend and performing strongly despite the credit crunch because holidaymakers are choosing to stick to the UK" according to Paul Kelbie, writing in the Guardian.
"Wild Scotland has revealed that business in 2008 has been as good as - or better than - 2007 for the majority of their members, who have together added £9.3m to the economy without counting secondary spending on accommodation, transport and food.
"Experts from Scottish Natural Heritage, VisitScotland, the International Centre for Responsible Tourism and other organisations met last week at Wild Scotland's annual conference near Perth and called on wildlife operators to seize the opportunities being presented by the financial crisis."
Read the full article on guardian.co.uk."Wildlife tourism in Scotland is bucking the trend and performing strongly despite the credit crunch because holidaymakers are choosing to stick to the UK" according to Paul Kelbie, writing in the Guardian.
"Wild Scotland has revealed that business in 2008 has been as good as - or better than - 2007 for the majority of their members, who have together added £9.3m to the economy without counting secondary spending on accommodation, transport and food.
"Experts from Scottish Natural Heritage, VisitScotland, the International Centre for Responsible Tourism and other organisations met last week at Wild Scotland's annual conference near Perth and called on wildlife operators to seize the opportunities being presented by the financial crisis."
Read the full article on guardian.co.uk.
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Wildlife supporting hotels in the Lake District
Since the 19th Century, the red squirrel has been slowly edged out by the larger and more outgoing grey squirrel. In the Lake District, the native red has seen the same decline as many other parts of the United Kingdom, since the introduction of its grey cousin from overseas. There are however, exceptions, such as Whinlatter Forest, where the red squirrel is strong in numbers.
As a region, Cumbria-The Lake District has been at the forefront of trying to counteract this trend and various organisations have been proactive in taking this forward. The Forestry Commission and Save Our Squirrels, for example, will help these Lake District squirrels, through the opening of a site near Keswick which will allow us to view them in their natural habitat and therefore understand them better.
In Windermere there are various projects, funded by local organisations which will help favour the red squirrel. This is increasingly important as there are only around 21,000 remaining in the whole of the UK. Lake District hotels are also helping out be creating awareness and showing their support.
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