Sustainability

How do we stop damaging what we love?

Sustainable Tourism

Making Sustainable Tourism the Standard in the Dive Industry
These tips for divers on how to keep the reefs healthy while sustaining tourism in the world’s best dive economies apply to snorkelers and other tourists as well.

Top 5 Practices From the Best Sustainable Diving Destinations
Put your money to work by supporting the places that have the best records for sustaining the local environment. Read this post to learn which destinations are working toward sustainability when you plan your next snorkeling vacation.

Going diving in the tropics? Don’t eat the reef fish!
Although this article references a study conducted in Palau, the results are applicable to all reef environments. Learn how overfishing reef fish for tourists to eat damages the ecology of the reef itself.

Keeping a Salt Water Aquarium

Do You Know Where Your Aquarium Fish Come From?
This blog post for National Geographic highlights the ins and outs of regulating the aquarium industry and how a hit movie like Finding Nemo can threaten a species almost overnight.

How to make sure your aquarium fish are ethical
The editor in me can’t help but giggle at this title, but purchasing ethically sourced fish is crucial to reef survival if you keep a salt water aquarium.

Where do aquarium fish come from?
The end of this informative article on the Massive Science website lists tips and resources for purchasing salt water fish responsibly.

Social Media – For Better or Worse

How Social Networks Can Contribute Towards Responsible Tourism?
This blog post by “A Thoughtful Traveler” is a good entry point for introducing the pros and cons of social media use within the travel and tourism industry.

Is Geotagging on Instagram Ruining Natural Wonders? Some Say Yes
This piece in the New York Times focuses on the chaos caused when social influencers make a formerly quiet destination the place to go for shooting selfies, backdrops, and product ads, and it also shares some good suggestions for tagging social posts responsibly.

How social media can help sustainable nature tourism
The author outlines creative uses of the photo-sharing website Flickr to track the well-being of various species of animals.

Just For Fun

Test your knowledge about sustainability. The answers to the quiz questions below can be found in the articles and websites curated on this page.

Come back next month to challenge yourself with new quiz questions!

Quiz photo by Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash

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