Willingness to Pay to Conserve the Recreational Service of Condor Flight at Colca Canyon, Peru

The global contribution of vultures towards ecosystem services and sustainability: An experts’ perspective

“…For example, vultures’ contribution as cultural services was deemed highest in South America, followed by West Asia, North Africa, West-Central Africa, and Europe. In South America, for example, the majestic Andean Condor ( Vultur gryphus ) is the national bird of Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, and Bolivia, it contributes ecotourism revenue in various sites, such as the Cruz del Condor in the Peruvian Andes, 33 and represents a biocultural keystone species for traditional Andean societies. 34 Similarly, Griffon vultures ( Gyps fulvus ) were found to contribute large ecotourism revenues in Israel’s (West Asia) nature reserves, 35 and in two regions of the Spanish Pyrenees, where annual ecotourism revenues exceeded two million € annually.…”