Swimming with whales in Tonga: Sustainable use or threatening process?

Marine Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 314-316

  Kessler, Megan ^a   Harcourt, Robert ^a   Heller, Gillian ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae); Kingdom of Tonga; Swim with whales; Tourism impacts

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOTOURISM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SWIMMING; WHALE;

TONGA;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE;

EID: 84872398646     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2012.12.013     Document Type: Article

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