Nature-Based Tourism and Prey Vulnerability to Predators

In a recent review [1] we developed a framework to identify potential ecological consequences of long-term benign inter-actions between humans and animals and[19_TD$DIFF] to highlight potential deleterious effects of non-threatening wildlife viewing by tou-rists. Fitzgerald and Stronza [2] ques-tioned our hypothesis stating that ‘It sends a countervailing, mixed message to conservation stakeholders about the real importance of tourism for protecting wildlife ’ and claimed that we focused on negative points while ecotourism could bring many more benefits than costs to endangered animals. We fully agree tha