Advances and barriers to the development of jaguar-tourism in the Brazilian Pantanal

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 61-63

  Tortato, Fernando R ^a,b   Izzo, Thiago J ^b  

^a PANTHERA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Management plan; Panthera onca; Protected areas; Rules; Wildlife tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019974187     PISSN: 25300644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2017.02.003     Document Type: Article

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