Impacts And Evaluation Of Wildlife Recreation

Wildlife resources is important economic and ecological resources as well as strategy resources, and is the important material basic of human productivity. The utilization of wildlife resources also includes the important parts of the wildlife recreation besides the consumptive economic utilization of material resources at home and abroad. There are very rich and diversified wildlife resources in our country, the wildlife recreation included birdwatching ecotourism is gradually becoming fashion style of tourism. It is a focused topics for people how to analyze the tourism activity of the wildlife recreation and to probe the rule, and it is significant theoretically and in practice to study on the wildlife recreation.This paper uses sustainable development and ecotourism theories, recreation theories and consumer behavior theories, uses the methods of econometrics and the multivariate statistics, and uses lots of the questionnaires, to have a in-depth and systematic analysis on the wildlife recreations. Firstly the situation of the wildlife recreation in China is recognized roundly and the problems are analyzed and discussed deeply . Secondly the impacts of the wildlife recreation on local economy, society and ecological environment are analyzed in detail, and the factors which have impacts on the wildlife recreation are analyzed in detail with a typical case study of birdwatching ecotourism at Wu Cheng natural reserve and Xiangshan forest park in Po Yang Lake areas. Thirdly, the ecotourism value and the environmental carrying capacity of the wildlife recreation is evaluated.The main researches results are that: (1) This paper uses Binary Logistic model with the relative theories and statistics method by the face to face investigation and the questionnaire, to analyze the impacts of birdwatching ecotourism on the economy and society and ecological environment. The findings are that the size of the wildlife recreation included birdwatching ecotourism in China is small. The wildlife recreation is at the stage of infant period and the introduce period, and have a slight impacts on the economy and society and ecological environment. (2) TCM is extended and used to set up a method of assessing the value of the birdwatching ecotourism. The value of the birdwatching recreation at the Xiangshan forest park in Po Yang lake areas in 2007, is valuated as more than 20 million Renminbi yuan by using the method. Meanwhile the carrying capacity of the birdwatching ecotourism at xiangshan forest park is analyzed, the findings is that the infrastructure of watching birds in the park is key restricted factor. (3) This paper analyzes the characteristics of the birder by the typical case study of birdwatching ecotourism, and summary the group characteristics of the birders. The findings will provide some information to develop the birder market of birdwatching ecotourism in China. (4) This paper provides the index system of factors impacted on the birdwatching ecotourism, and analyze the main and the minor factors of having an impacts on the birdwatching ecotourism by using effectively the analytic hierarchy process. the conclusion is that the factors such as the wildlife resources, protection of the wildlife and the characteristics of the birders are the mainfactors which have an impacts on the birdwatching ecotourism.