ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF TOURISM INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AT YANKARI GAME RESERVE, BAUCHI - NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

Development of tourism Infrastructure at the Yankari Game Reserve,Bauchi, which is essentially a natural environment, raises obvious questions about its future in terms of the sustainability of wildlife conservation and biodiversity objectives and the provision of tourism and recreation. The research set out to answer the question, Has tourism infrastructure already passed some critical environmental thresholds? Will tourism infrastructure endanger the ecological well-being of Yankari Game Reserve? These are questions about how much change in terms of infrastructure provision is acceptable for sustainability of the Game Reserve. This thesis tries to address these questions at the Game Reserve Basecamp using the Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) framework. Limits to change are examined by first surveying the status of the existing Infrastructure at the Basecamp, then the proposed development to be put in place and then the attitudes of tourism stakeholders and tourists toward present an...