“Converting Unseen and Unexpected Barriers to Park Plan Implementation into Manageable and Expected Challenges.” IUCN’s PARKS (April 2006). In the “Planning for the Unexpected” theme, this article investigates barriers to park planning in mental models and how to circumvent those barriers. Abstract and paper PDF. Updated version published in Reflections (June 2006), journal of the Society for Organizational Learning. A still more updated chapter to be published at the end of 2006 in a UNESCO World Heritage Centre book on park planning.

“Putting the Ecotourism Guide Back Into Context: Training Guides with Systems Thinking.” Chapter in Quality Assurance & Certification in Ecotourism published by CABI Publishing in August 2007. How to connect ecotour guides to real conservation outcomes. Copyright owned by publisher. See abstract. See official book synopsis (PDF 535 kb).

“Putting Environmental/Heritage Interpretation to Work for Conservation in a Park Setting: Conceptualizing Principal Conservation Strategies.” (PDF, 293kb) Applied Environmental Education and Communication: An International Journal 4(1) . (February 2005)

“Zoos Behind the Wild Facade.” (PDF, 240kb).   International Journal of Wilderness. (August 2004). Essay that won the Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship for best wilderness-related essay, sponsored by Yale University and the Wilderness Society in 1996.  How zoos use the wilderness myth to avoid doing as much conservation as they could.

“Embera’s Ecotourism: Keeping Civilization at Arm’s Length.” Native Peoples magazine (September/October 2003). This indigenous tribe tries to balance a new way of life with the power of civilization. Photography by Jerry Bauer. In Motion Sickness Magazine (August 2004).

“Ecotourism’s Conservation Connection.” Parks & Recreation Magazine (September 2002). Ecotourists can be generous philanthropists to your park’s conservation cause.

“Every Island is a Reserve.” Wildlife Conservation (September/October 1993). The elements of tropical conservation at the La Selva biological station in Costa Rica.

“Hurdles to Teaching Guides to Interpret Biodiversity Conservation.” Legacy (July/August, 2001). Problems RARE Center has encountered and is attempting to jump in the National Association of Interpretation's publication.

“Asking the Visitors to Pay for Conservation.” Legacy (May/June 2003). Using interpretation to solicit conservation donations.

“Preaching Paradise Sustained,” in Planeta.com (June 2003). The story of a visionary and evangelical mix of conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica.

“Heritage Interpretation as an Ecotourism Conservation Strategy.” (May 2002). Paper presented at the conference “Ecotourism in the Americas: Putting Good Intentions to Work,” sponsored by the Stanford University Department of Anthropological Sciences. Use of a conceptual model demonstrates the pathway between interpretation and biodiversity conservation in a park visitor management context.

“Up the River: Lesson in Community-based Conservation in Panama.” GoNOMAD.com (September 2002). Embera Drua community in Chagres National Park seems like a text-book case of successful ecotourism, nevertheless, behind the scenes you can see the challenges they face.

“When Business and Conservation Join Forces.” Central America Weekly (#174, 2000). Examples of using business strategies to promote conservation on the Caribbean coast of Honduras.

“Conversations in the Skies.” Honduras This Week (21 April 2001), www.wingsofchange.org (August 2001). How the Colorado-based environmental organization, Wings of Change, uses air flight as means of promoting conservation.

“Nature Guide Program Continues to Link Conservation with Tourism.” Honduras This Week (13 May 2000). 

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