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How Ecotourism is Destroying Antarctica
Posted on October 07, 2008
Image: *christopher*Written by new contributor, Andy StoneProblems were inevitable for Antarctic tourism from the start. Seen by many as the last unspoiled landmass on earth, the unique and vulnerable ecosystem is what attracts people to our southernmost continent. How do we handle tourism to a place whose only appeal to most of us is its lack of large-scale human contact? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?Dutch researchers have thought the same thing, and believe they have a solution; limit and then auction off visiting rights to Antarctica.Image: goneforawanderIn some ways, their logic is s...
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