Neo-tropical Animals and Agro-tourism - The University of the West

88 Pages·2009·1.92 MB·English

Neo-tropical Animals and Agro-tourism:
AA RReeppuubblliicc ooff TTrriinniiddaadd aanndd TToobbaaggoo
Opportunity
by
Gary Wayne Garcia
Senior Lecturer in Animal Production
TThhee OOppeenn TTrrooppiiccaall FFoorraaggee –
Animal Production Laboratory
[OTF-APL]
Department of Food Production
Faculty of Science and Agriculture
The University of The West Indies
St Augustine
Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
UUnniivveerrssiittyy ooff tthhee WWeesstt IInnddiieess,,
SStt.. AAuugguussttiinnee..
Presented at
International Conference: Turtle Conservation, Ecotourism and Sustainable
Community Development
Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies [SALISES]
UUWWII, SStt AAugusttiine, TTriiniiddadd andd TTobbago, WW.II.
July 28-29, 2009
1.0 Presentation Outline
1. Where is the Neo-tropics?
2. What is meant by the term “Animal” within the context
off tthhiis paper??
3. Why the use of the term “Neo-tropical Animals” and
nnoott “WWiillddlliiffee”??
4. Utilization of Neo-tropical Animals &/ the Global Value
of Wildlife.
5. Agro-tourism.
6. The problems that we have with Neo-tropical Animals.
77. NNeo-ttropiicall AAniimalls off IImporttance tto TTriiniiddadd andd
Tobago within the Agro-tourism context.
8. The Opppportunities for Neo-troppical Animals in Trinidad
and Tobago within the Agro-tourism context.
22.. WWhheerree iiss tthhee NNeeoo-ttrrooppiiccss??
UUnniivveerrssiittyy ooff tthhee
WWWWeesstt IIIInnddddiiiieess,,
SStt.. AAuugguussttiinnee..
33. WWhhaatt iiss aann AAnniimmaall??
GGaarrcciiaa 33 XX 33 ccllaassssiiffiiccaattiioonn ooff AAnniimmaallss//LLiivveessttoocckk aass ffoolllloowwss::
1] Domestic Animals
((i)) Food Animals
(cid:122)
(ii) Companion Animals
(cid:122)
(iii) Laboratory Animals
22] AAniimals on the Verge off Domestiicatiion [SSemii-wiild//SSemii-
domesticated]
33]] ZZoooo aanndd TTrruullyy WWiilldd AAnniimmaallss
This simple classification is necessary because the Vets mean one
tthhiinngg, tthhee AAggrriiccuullttuurree ppeeooppllee mmeeaann oonnee tthhiinngg aanndd tthhee
Conservationists mean another.
44..00 WWhhyy aarree wwee
uussiinngg tthhee tteerrmm
Neo-troppical
Animals and not
Wildlife OR Wild
Animals?
4.1 Wildlife
“Wildlife” includes all life that have not been
domesticated byy humans
“Wildlife” to mean
“tteerrrreessttrriiaall aanndd aaqquuaattiicc nnoonn-ddoommeessttiicc aanniimmaallss”.
At VIII International Congress on the
MManagementt off WWiillddlliiffe iin AAmazoniia
and Latin America, September, 2008,
Acre, Brazil], it was suggested that
wwee sshhoouulldd bbeeggiinn ttoo uussee tthhee tteerrmm
“Neo-tropical Animals” instead of “Neo-tropical
WWiillddlliiffee” oorr “AAmmaazzoonniiaann WWiillddlliiffee”.
The above suggestion was
made to ensure that we
ddiiffffeerreennttiiaattee tthhee aapppprrooaacchheess
being developed for Latin
AAmeriican solutiions to
“Wildlife” managgement from
the Eurocentric approaches.
Ojasti (1996) [pioneer on Latin American Wildlife
MMaannaaggeemmeenntt, ttrraaiinneedd iinn EEuurrooppee aanndd UUSSAA bbeeffoorree ggooiinngg ttoo
work in Venezuela] his thinking:
“MMoosstt ooff tthhee iinnffoorrmmaattiioonn nnooww aavvaaiillaabbllee
is descriptive and/or anecdotal,
bbaasseedd oonn tthhee eexxppeerriieenncceess,
views or beliefs of hunters and
ccaammppeessiinnooss, oorr oonn nnaattuurraalliissttss’
accounts observations of animals in captivity,
aanndd ssoo ffoorrtthh. TThhee ddiiffffuussee iinnffoorrmmaattiioonn iiss
repeatedly cited but there is no way
to chheckk iits oriigiin andd accuracy.””
““TThhe probbllem off LLatiin AAmeriican
WWiillddlliiffee rreeqquuiirreess iittss oowwnn ssoolluuttiioonnss,,
geared to the specific realities
of the countries,
tthhe regiion andd tthhe ttype off user””.