Sustaining ecosystems

• chalalan ecolodge social sustainability

  50% of all profits are reinvested into the community. More than 70 families receive economic benefits from profits and employment.
• Economic sustainability of Chalalan ecolodge

  Can accommodate up to 28 tourists. up to 24 employees work as full-time cooks, guides, cleaners and administrators
• Environmental sustainability of Chalalan ecolodge

  70 families volunteered to build the ecolodge made from rainforest materials harvested in a sustainable manner. Solar energy is used for a few hours a day. The ecolodge educates tourists not to buy products from endangered species like the Giant Otter.
• Small scale eco-tourism in Antarctica

  The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has monitored the breeding performances of Gentoo penguins for 12 years and have found that tourists have not significantly affected them. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has banned the use of heavy fuel oil in Antarctic waters.
• Problem that makes tourism unsustainable in Antarctica

  In 2007 a vessel carrying 100 passengers and 50 crew cracked on ice spilling 55,000 gallons of oil into the ocean. Whaling
• Antarctica small scale sustainability- ecotourism

  There is 1 guide for every 20 tourists. Union Glacier camp is run by Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions. It is 1100km from the South Pole and in the Ellsworth Mountains. Limited to 70 guests at a time.
• Global scale sustainable management of Antarctica

  By 2016, 53 countries had signed the Antarctic Treaty which accounts for over 80% of the world’s population. The Antarctic Treaty promotes scientific corporation like when the BAS scientists discovered the hole in the ozone layer which led to the worldwide banning of CFCs