Demeke Asmamaw Yeshanew

Eco-tourism for Conservation and Livelihoods, Bmnp, Ethiopia Demeke Asmamaw Yeshanew

Eco-tourism is an important discipline for Natural Resource Conservation and improve the livelihood options of the local community through active involvement in Eco-tourism areas. Recently most developing countries is applied community based Eco-tourism projects for enhancing Nature conservation and the community income. when people were perceived as the primary agents of environmental degradation and hence, conservationists sought to prohibit people from using the land in order to preserve it and its wildlife. Native communities were forced to leave their ancestral land in the name of protection. Recent development show a change in strategy whereby local communities now have an economic stake in sustaining the land and wildlife.