By Ksenya Kopilovsky
A report by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP, 2003) on the subject of tourism and biodiversity suggests that ‘resource depletion and habitat disruption, littering and water pollution are problems associated with mainstream tourism that can have negative consequences for biodiversity conservation’. But in the late 1980s, people found a new way of exploring the Earth’s wonders and it has been evolving and becoming more popular ever since.
According to the Wo...
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