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The present study investigates the hourly activity patterns of mammals inhabiting the area surrounding the Camisea gas pipeline that crosses the Machiguenga Communal Reserve. From February 2020 to January 2021, a photographic record was conducted using camera traps placed along the gas pipeline. Activity patterns were estimated using Kernel density functions. During the study period, 25 mammal species were recorded. It was found that Dasyprocta kalinowskii and Eira barbara exhibit a diurnal activity pattern, whereas Cuniculus paca, Tapirus terrestris, Dasypus spp., and Mazama spp. display predominantly nocturnal behavior. It is suggested that observed activity patterns could be influenced by various factors such as competitive exclusion between D. kalinowskii and C. paca, seasonal food availability for T. terrestris, temperature and precipitation variations for Dasypus spp., phylogenetic constraints in Mazama spp., and temporal segregation with other carnivores for E. barbara. The significance of collaboration between energy industry companies, native communities, and governmental organizations is emphasized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nature-based tourism has been gaining momentum over the last decades, with special development in protected areas as the main destinations; mostly after the pandemic and within the new dynamics caused by the crises. This paper focuses on Spain as a case study. It provides a state of the art and analyses some of the post-pandemic recovery policies materialised, in this case, in tourism sustainability plans for the creation of supply around high-value natural areas. The risks derived from the adoption of regrowth measures make some considerations necessary. Also, the proposal of alternatives for the promotion of recreational practices linked to different conservation instruments, as well as the proposal of actions within the tourism containment and degrowth frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main territorial transformations in the central valley of Chile are associated with urbanization processes, leaving environmentally important areas susceptible. This work aims to determine the types of changes in natural protected areas (npas) of the central zone, establishing the main ones and explaining each one of them. The methodology is based on a study of changes in land use/cover between 2002 and 2015 through photointerpretation. To establish the typologies, a confusion matrix that characterizes each of the study units was developed. Based on the above, a relationship between urban infrastructure and npas was established. Among the main conclusions is that the greatest impact on the npas is caused by urban typology stands out, exerting greater pressure with the advance of time. There is also a permeability in urban-rural-natural spaces, which makes it necessary to think of new functional typologies that account for these new spaces. In summary, these dynamic spaces play a role within an evolving context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Protected natural areas seem to be the preferred space for tourist's activities. With concepts of sustainability, they try to improve the living conditions of rural and indigenous communities, promoting development and protecting nature. However, in reality it proves that the objective has not been fulfilled in the expected way, maintaining and increasing social and environmental degradation. This article's objective is to show the critical perspectives regarding the study of tourism in said spaces, analyzing articles and book chapters published during 2015-2021. The main results shows that the current crises are the result of maintaining the capitalist system, seeing as protected areas and tourist activities are promoted in mercantilist terms under the idea of neoliberal conservation. All facilitated by policies configuration that allows arrival and formation of capital in the rural-natural environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]