March – 2001-04-06

Hey how are things?

Wow, it’s April all ready April, but what happened in March then?

I started uni the last week in February and got into the swing again pretty fast and so did our lecturers by piling essays, reports, ministerial briefings and scientific posters our way. Read the rest of this entry »

EV 3203

To: Minister for the Environment

From: Stefan Martensson, Conservationist / Political Advisor.

Re: Detection of Declining Trends in Populations of Marine Wildlife in Queensland Read the rest of this entry »

To: Minister for the Environment

From: Stefan Martensson, Conservationist / Political Advisor.

Re: A commitment for funding Queensland Environmental Protection Agency (QEPA) to institute management actions to improve conservation prospects of one species of marine wildlife have been decided. Read the rest of this entry »

EV3200, 2001-03-22

Philosophy behind our National Parks; Preservation or for Human Use?

Introduction.

As human populations increase the pressure from urban living encourage people to seek solitude with nature, the number of visitors to national parks and protected areas continues to increase. Protected areas have important values in sustaining human society, especially through conserving cultural heritage. They also provide for the maintenance of representative samples of natural regions and preservation of biological diversity, and are important in protecting the environmental stability of the surrounding areas (WTO/UNEP, 1992).

The interrelationship between tourism and the environment plays a large role in many countries around the world and more and more extensive legislation is aimed at the protection of natural resource attractions (Ostrowski, 1984). Read the rest of this entry »

EV5209, 2001-03-09

Portfolio of Protected Areas From all Over the Globe Read the rest of this entry »

EV5209, 2001-03-05

How to Manage Visitor Impacts in Protected Areas

Introduction.

The objectives of nature area management are often twofold: To protect the natural environment and to facilitate recreational use (FNNPE 1993). These two objectives are not always compatible, and in order to maintain the natural setting, it is sometimes necessary to regulate the recreational use of an area (Vorkinn, 1998).

The carrying capacity model is an effective tool for the management of a protected area recreation resource. Within the model are four primary sub-capacities, namely, physical capacity, biological capacity, social capacity and facility capacity; combined they are essential to the appropriate management of protected areas recreation resource environments (Symmonds et al. , 2000). Read the rest of this entry »

February – Greetings friends!

This month started with finishing of my intensive course called Protected Area Management – Principles and practices.

It was quite a good intensive which taught me much about the problems with having people in fragile environments and how to keep outdoors activities like hiking, horseback riding and stuff sustainable. Read the rest of this entry »

January 2001-01-07

The New Year started very good with many nice friends wanting to see me and I was literally dragged from one to another…

It felt good however, so I should not complain…

I will return to this page in a couple of weeks so I can tell you more about how my stay in Sweden has been. Read the rest of this entry »

2001-01-07

As you all know now X-mas and New Year is all over and we are well into the New Year.

December was very interesting month with an intensive course making up the major part of the month before I left Oz for Sweden the 18th of Dec.

The intensive was called ZL3211 Australian Tropical Herpetology. Herpetology is the study of reptiles and amphibians. Read the rest of this entry »

November – 2000-11-26

End of November and some updating has been done to the site, nothing major just some updating on the personal pages and dive pages.

As I told you about in the October History I was going diving if I got some funding and the funding came through!!! Yiihaaa!!

You can read all about the dive trip at the Dive Pages, and I promise Read the rest of this entry »