Marasinghe Sumudu, Simpson Greg D, Newsome David, Perera Priyan
Department of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda 10250, Sri Lanka.
Harry Butler Institute Murdoch University: Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia.
Trop Life Sci Res. 2020 Jul;31(2):51-78. doi: 10.21315/tlsr2020.31.2.4. Epub 2020 Aug 6.
In addition to scoping the impacts of the four most reported sources of recreational disturbance on shorebirds, this study also advances the concept of Tropical Asia (TA) to collectively describe tourist destinations in the ecologically and geopolitically diverse part of the planet that incorporates the tourism megaregion of South and Southeast Asia. At a time of growing global concern about the rapid decline of shorebird populations, many governments in TA are embracing and capitalising on the exponential growth in demand for coastal recreation and tourism across the region. This political response is partly driven by efforts to deliver economic development, aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in order to secure the livelihoods of people living in less developed coastal areas. However, the rapid increase in visitor numbers and the development of infrastructure to support the booming demand for coastal tourism destinations in TA are further exacerbating the pressures on shorebird populations across the region. Despite these growing pressures and the wealth of research reporting on shorebird populations across the Asian flyways, this scoping study identified surprisingly little research that reports on the recreational disturbance (RD) of shorebirds in TA. While undertaken to inform future research, this study also provides a synthesis of management strategies reported in the global literature into a set of management recommendations for coastal destinations in TA.
除了界定最常被报告的四种娱乐干扰源对滨鸟的影响外，本研究还提出了“热带亚洲”（TA）这一概念，用以总体描述地球上生态和地缘政治多样地区的旅游目的地，该地区涵盖了南亚和东南亚的旅游大区。在全球日益关注滨鸟数量迅速下降之际，热带亚洲的许多政府正在接纳并利用该地区对沿海休闲和旅游业需求的指数级增长。这种政治回应部分是由为实现经济发展所做的努力推动的，这与联合国可持续发展目标相一致，目的是保障生活在欠发达沿海地区人们的生计。然而，游客数量的迅速增加以及为满足热带亚洲沿海旅游目的地蓬勃发展的需求而进行的基础设施建设，正在进一步加剧该地区滨鸟种群所面临的压力。尽管压力不断增大，且有大量关于亚洲候鸟迁徙路线上滨鸟种群的研究报告，但这项范围界定研究发现，令人惊讶的是，关于热带亚洲滨鸟娱乐干扰（RD）的研究非常少。虽然开展这项研究是为未来的研究提供信息，但它也将全球文献中报告的管理策略综合成了一套针对热带亚洲沿海目的地的管理建议。
