Currently, there is increasing level of poverty, underdevelopment and unemployment in Sango Bay region despite the increasing consumptive use of the natural resources. With the rapid increase of human population in recent
years, increasing numbers of marginalized people, especially women and the youth, are moving and settling in the wetlands in search of new means of earning a living. Within this broad socio-economic and environmental context, the development and promotion of ecotourism and other forms of recreational non-consumptive uses of the wetland is crucial for long-term conservation of resources and poverty reduction. Thus, in the overall, eco-tourism which denotes a sustainable form of tourism that is small in scale and in which local control and benefits are of primary importance to the communities should be introduced to conserve the resources and provide an alternative sustainable livelihood strategy to reduce poverty in the community.
Currently, there is increasing level of poverty, underdevelopment and unemployment in Sango Bay region despite the increasing consumptive use of the natural resources. With the rapid increase of human population in recent
years, increasing numbers of marginalized people, especially women and the youth, are moving and settling in the wetlands in search of new means of earning a living. Within this broad socio-economic and environmental context, the development and promotion of ecotourism and other forms of recreational non-consumptive uses of the wetland is crucial for long-term conservation of resources and poverty reduction. Thus, in the overall, eco-tourism which denotes a sustainable form of tourism that is small in scale and in which local control and benefits are of primary importance to the communities should be introduced to conserve the resources and provide an alternative sustainable livelihood strategy to reduce poverty in the community.
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