MAY 23,
2019
Understanding
how people use and experience important places for living nature is essential
for effectively managing and monitoring human activities and conserving
biodiversity.
In a new
article published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, a team
of researchers assessed global patterns of visitation rates, attractiveness and
pressure to more than 12,000 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs),
which are sites of international significance for nature conservation, by
using geolocated data mined from social media (Twitter
and Flickr).
The study
found that Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas located in Europe and Asia,
and in temperate biomes, had the highest density of social media users. Results
also showed that sites of importance for congregatory species, which were also
more accessible, more densely populated and provided more tourism facilities,
received higher visitation than did sites richer in bird species.
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