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  • Contrary to recent suggestions, ecotourism and park visitor management cannot decarbonise the airline and hotel sectors at industry scale, though both can contribute to other environmental benefits under some circumstances. Industry-wide decarbonisation needs institutional changes, e.g. in relation to subsidies and fuel-tax exemptions. Frameworks relying only on individual choices are insufficient. They act as political pretences for further growth in carbon emissions, and tourism land grabs in public protected areas.

    • Ralf C. Buckley
    • Linsheng Zhong
    • Stefan Gössling
    Comments & OpinionOpen Access
    npj Climate Action
    Volume: 5, P: 1-3

  • Paul Pharoah, Joellen Schildkraut, Thomas Sellers and colleagues report a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for epithelial ovarian cancer and genotyping using the iCOGS array in 18,174 cases and 26,134 controls from 43 studies from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. They identify three new ovarian cancer susceptibility loci, including one specific to the serous subtype, and their integrated molecular analysis of genes and regulatory regions at these loci suggests disease mechanisms.

    • Paul D P Pharoah
    • Ya-Yu Tsai
    • Thomas A Sellers
    Research
    Nature Genetics
    Volume: 45, P: 362-370

  • Big Tourism has co-opted the IUCN tourism subgroup to promote land grabs for private tourism development in public protected areas, detracting from IUCN’s conservation role. Recent political manoeuvres include a tourism-in-parks policy paper, proposed motions, and sessions at the World Conservation Congress 2025. We call upon IUCN to explicitly reject infiltration of industrial tourism into national parks, and recognise definitively that public protected areas are assets for conservation of biodiversity.

    • Ralf C. Buckley
    • Christopher J. O’Bryan
    • Linsheng Zhong
    Comments & OpinionOpen Access
    npj Biodiversity
    Volume: 5, P: 1-4

  • Parks have a previously unquantified economic value attributable to mental health, a health services value. Here, the authors proposed three methods to estimate this, and applied one of these methods to show that this value is at least US$6 trillion per annum worldwide.

    • Ralf Buckley
    • Paula Brough
    • Neil Harris
    ReviewsOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-10

  • We analyse political manoeuvres by global tourism industry associations, and responses by conservation organisations, that create new risks to biodiversity. There are a few tourism enterprises that make net positive contributions to conservation. Nature positive terms, however, are being used for marketing greenwash, to delay and avoid environmental fees and regulations, and to lobby for land grabs in public protected areas.

    • Ralf C. Buckley
    • Meisha Liddon
    • Linsheng Zhong
    Comments & OpinionOpen Access
    npj Biodiversity
    Volume: 4, P: 1-3

  • Conservation of nearshore marine ecosystems gains political support from the economic value of cultural ecosystem services from surfing. This contribution is greater if the mental health benefits of surfing are included. For the Gold Coast, Australia, these are estimated at ~US$1.0–3.3 billion per year. Mental health benefits from surfing comprise 57–74% of the total economic benefits of surfing; 4.4–13.5 times direct expenditure by surfers; and 4–12 times economic effects via property and inbound tourism. For the 50 million surfers worldwide, these translate to a global estimated value of ~US$0.38–1.30 trillion per year. Greater accuracy will require multi-year panel studies.

    • Ralf C. Buckley
    • Mary-Ann Cooper
    Comments & OpinionOpen Access
    npj Ocean Sustainability
    Volume: 2, P: 1-3