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“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. Copyright owned by publisher. See abstract. See official book synopsis (PDF 535 kb).

“Beyond Lumber.” Legacy (May/June 2005). Feature story on the changing identity of the second largest heritage park in the USA (NC Penna) as seen through interpretive planning. With Shomer Zwelling.

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“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. To be reprinted 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.

“Rescuer of the Animal Rescue Center.” Animals Magazine (December 2000). Honduran Fito Steiner rescues AMARAS, the Honduran animal rescue center.

“Visitor Centers: If You Build It, Will They Come?” E Magazine (November/December 2000). Visitor centers in Central American parks are having some troubles and reprinted in Honduras This Week and La Tribuna in Spanish (6 January 2001).

“Wellfleet ‘boneyard’ has much to teach.” The Boston Globe (13 September 1993 and reprinted in Sanctuary January 1994). Front page of Education section. Natural history education using bones from marine animals. 

“Friendly Mountain, Fast Water.” Caribbean Travel & Life Magazine (December 2000). Day trip to Pico Bonito National Park’s Rio Zacate Waterfall.

“Latin American Interpretive Trails: Not So Easy as Cutting Trees.” Legacy (September/October, 2001). RARE uses interpretive natur trails to link business and interpretation in Latin America. National Association for Interpretation's publication.

“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.

“Preaching Paradise Sustained,” in Planeta.com (June 2003). The story of a visionary and evangelical mix of conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica. Also published in Revista Dominical of La Nación (Costa Rica) in Spanish (September 2003).

“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.

“Environmental Tourism in Central America.” Transitions Abroad (May/June 1999) and Alternative Travel Directory 1999. Traveling the North Coast of Honduras. The second is an annual directory published by the same magazine. Reprinted as “Local Nature: Locally Guided Nature Tours in Honduras” in GoNOMAD.com (December 2000).

“Parque Bolivar Zoo: Winning Battle Against Woes of the Past.” Tico Times (18 August 1994). English paper in Costa Rica. Recent changes at the National Zoo. Photographs. 

“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.

“Nature Guides in Honduras.” Planeta Platica (August 1998), Honduras This Week (September 1998). How RARE Center intends to make its guides more conservation worthy. 

“Expatriates Bar: Fine Food, Cigars, and Environmental Espionage.” Planeta Platica (May 2001), Honduras This Week (20 January 2001). Environmental and social happenings at this famous La Ceiba, Honduras bar.

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

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