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Nature-based recreation is a key ecosystem service that contributes to positive physical and mental welfare but, at the same time, nature-based recreational activities can increase human pressure and impacts on natural areas and biodiversity. Understanding people’s preference for visiting natural settings is challenging due to data and methodological limitations. Social media data can be used to map nature-based recreation. However, variation in popularity of platforms and limitations to data accessibility are highlighting the importance of exploring and using different data sources. We analyzed complementary crowdsourced data using an automated content analysis refined by manual identification to assess nature-based recreation ecosystem services across the Maltese archipelago. A content analysis of images uploaded to Flickr between 2015 and 2021 was performed using the Google Vision machine learning algorithm to identify nature-based interactions and nature visitation patterns were modeled based on landscape characteristics, environmental variables and socio-economic parameters. Flickr data were compared and complemented with publicly available geolocated data from the iNaturalist platform. Significant difference was found between the spatial distribution of Flickr and iNaturalist data. Generalized linear models identified coastal areas, protected areas, natural habitats and accessibility via the road network as significant predictors of nature-based recreational visits. Localities with a higher percentage of people receiving old age and unemployment benefits were also positively correlated with users’ preference for nature-based recreation. Finally, we discussed how the low resource methodology developed here to identify people’s nature-based recreational preferences can be used to assess which natural areas should be prioritized for ecological restoration efforts.

Svet se letos spopada z najobsežnejšimi požari v naravi. V Kanadi so našteli več kot 6400 gozdnih požarov, ki so zajeli površino osmih Slovenij. Na stotine požarov je letos na desetkrat večji površini, kot je Ljubljana, prizadelo tudi Grčijo. Pri nas je bil eden najhujših požarov lani, ko je gorelo na našem Krasu. Kakšne so posledice požarov v naravi na rastje in tla? Kakšen je leto po požaru naš Kras? Rastline so različno odporne proti ognju in visokim temperaturam. Črni bor je naša proti ognju najodpornejša drevesna vrsta. Kako požar vpliva na druga drevesa? V nekaterih delih sveta pa so požari naraven, ponekod celo nujen pojav.

Nature-based tourism constitutes a major segment of world tourism. Protected areas are considered a popular theme in the literature, which is characterised by a great heterogeneity in concepts, contents, and purposes. This study analyses many of the indicators of interest related to the research on the themes of protected areas and nature-based tourism. Consequently, we aim to offer a global and updated vision of the research produced regarding these themes over the last 30 years. With bibliometric tools (Bibliometrix and VOSviewer), 1033 scientific articles were analysed. The results indicate that the research in this area exponentially increased in the last decade. Using a co-occurrence network of keywords, five major themes in this study were identified: (1) ecotourism; (2) nature conservation, biodiversity, and sustainability; (3) national parks, recreation, and climate change; (4) sustainable management and development; and (5) with a lesser degree of representation, themes related to China and ecosystem services. A timespan analysis on this network enabled the identification of six trends in the research over the last years: (i) sustainable tourism; (ii) climate change; (iii) geotourism and rural tourism; (iv) ecosystem services and cultural ecosystem services; (v); visitor studies; and (vi) wildlife tourism. Nature-based tourism plays a significant and crucial role in sustainable development. Analysing research in protected areas and nature-based tourism provides insights into key themes and emerging trends, serving as a valuable resource for knowledge advancement.

Nature-based activities have become business constituents of increasing importance in the tourism industry. In this paper, trends in nature-based tourism with the largest commercial potentials are identified by means of surveys with 60 experts in five different countries/regions with a renowned nature-based tourism sector, collected in three rounds based on Delphi methodology. Results show that the trend categories with the highest impact on commercial opportunities within the next 10 years are related to health, sustainability, soft adventure, digitalization, and professionalization. The ability to recognize and deal with such prospects is a key element of an economically successful, but also environmental and socially sustainable nature-based tourism industry. Thus, the identified developments are of crucial importance to business managers, policymakers, managers of nature areas, and planning authorities.

Viki Grošelj v knjigi Mojih 33 odprav obračuna z vzponi na 33 najvišjih in najbolj odmaknjenih gorstev sveta. Od Makaluja leta 1975 do Himlunga leta 2022. Izjemnih 47 let spominov na skoraj 400 straneh z barvnimi fotografijami.

Outdoor recreation in natural areas has become an increasingly popular activity globally, yet the long-term effects on wildlife are poorly known. Reconciling human access to nature and wildlife conservation requires sound evaluations of how outdoor activities affect biodiversity in space and time. We aimed to contribute to this topic by asking whether tourism in the world-renown Dolomites, Italy, affected wild mammals in the long term, and if it elicited spatial or temporal avoidance. We detected mammals by systematic camera trapping over seven consecutive summers at 60, consistently sampled, sites, and estimated trends in occurrence at community and species levels through a dynamic community occupancy model, combined with site use intensity and an index of nocturnality. Overall, 70% of the 520 000 images obtained depicted humans, whose presence intensified over the 7-year period. Nonetheless, both community and most species-level occurrences increased. However, human activities caused a strong temporal avoidance in the whole community, especially in most disturbed sites, while spatial avoidance was observed only for bigger-sized species.

Reinhold Messner v knjigi Podobe smisla govori o tem, kaj mu prinaša uspeh: odrekanje namesto potrošnje, sposobnost znebiti se navlake. Kaj ga je vodilo iz kmečke vasice v Dolomitih do najvišjih vrhov na svetu? Katere vrednote so ga vodile na njegovi poti in kakšno odločilno vlogo ima pri tem odrekanje? Kaj lahko pridobimo, če nekaj izpustimo? Toda Messner se ne spopada le z vprašanji svojega življenja. V ospredju so teme, ki zadevajo vse nas: trajnostni razvoj, podnebne spremembe in medgeneracijska pravičnost. Kako se spoprijema s staranjem ter kaj mu pomenijo smrt, religija in duhovnost? Messner se ne izogiba niti zelo zasebnim zadevam in odkrito govori o krizah in razočaranjih, o ločitvi in novih začetkih v ljubezni.

Planinski vodnik Durmitor, nacionalni park je vodnik z 90 opisanimi vzponi na 40 planinskih vrhov gorstva Durmitor, obenem pa tudi bogata monografija s preko 400 izbranimi fotografijami nacionalnega parka. V vodniku so opisane vse smeri vzponov na vrhove Durmitorja. Na najvišji durmitorski vrh, Bobotov Kuk, je opisanih kar 7 različnih poti. V vodniku najdemo tudi opise petih kanjonov, treh rečnih dolin, 18 jezer in drugih znamenitosti tega najlepšega črnogorskega gorstva. Dodatno avtor predstavi narodni park Durmitor, mesto Žabljak in zgodovino alpinizma durmitorskih gora in sten.

Oddaja opozarja na onesnaženost morja s plastiko in še posebej z mikroplastiko. Ta nato zaide v ribe, te pa končajo na naših krožnikih in v človeškem organizmu. Rešitev pa niso čistilne akcije na morskih obalah. Okrepiti je treba zavedanje, da moramo spremeniti naša dejanja in predvsem industrijo, ki je največji onesnaževalec.

This report, created in collaboration with master’s students at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, examines how climate change impacts the rock climbing, trail running, hiking and mountain biking communities and outlines what many of us already know: that no matter the season, a warming world has profound implications for outdoor recreation.

Z alpinizmom se ukvarja mnogo ljudi, Andrej Štremfelj pa je en sam. Njegov opis otroškega hrepenenja po odkrivanju skrivnosti gora dokazuje, da tudi sedaj, ko brada postaja siva in korak počasnejši, ni nič drugače. A ko se z njim podaš v stene Julijcev, se kot na platnu zvrstijo soplezalci, življenjski ritem tistega časa in neverjetna radost življenja. In ko po vožnji s tovornjakom in kombijem v družbi Nejca Zaplotnika odkriva in tudi prepleza svoj prvi osemtisočak, Skriti vrh, se zdi, kot da doživljamo napore in srečo skupaj z njim. Prav tu, na prvi himalajski odpravi, pri rosnih dvajsetih letih, se prvič sreča s smrtjo svojega prijatelja.

Vodnik ponuja vseosežen pregled možnost za planinarjenje v Hrvaški. Vsebuje veliko konkretnih in praktičnih podatkov, z bogato grafično obliko in modernim pristopom - tako vodnik služi kot dobra osnova za planinarjenje lahkih poldnevnih sprehodov, celodnevnih izletov in večdnevnih tur.