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The state Human activities and impacts Other human impact. Tourism
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Other human impact. Tourism
As described in chapter General background description of the ecosystem - Ecosystem interactions - Human impact, cruise-ship tourism may have impact on behaviour of marine mammals. Due to expected climatic changes that will open new area for sailing because of ice melting, one can also expect increasing pressure from tourism in this open area.
The arctic region, therefore, is under steadily increasing pressure from tourism.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 03 February 2010 12:05 )
Status Report. The authors
More than 100 experts from a total of 9 Russian and 20 Norwegian institutions have participated in the preparation of the report, and the work has been organized in 13 expert groups. The work has been led by Sevmorgeo and PINRO on Russian side and on Norwegian side by the Institute of Marine Research and the Norwegian Polar Institute..
Find author name here...The Russian - Norwegian cooperation
BarentsPortal is a project developed under the Joint Russian - Norwegian Commission on Environmental Cooperation. The joint environmental report is a co-operation project between the Joint Russian - Norwegian Commission on Environmental Cooperation and the Joint Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission