Why tourism needs a conscience

Why tourism needs a conscience

Penguin researcher Pablo Garcia Borboroglu on sustainable wildlife encounters By Bryony Cottam When Pablo Garcia Borboroglu was a young boy, his grandmother told him tales of the penguins that lived on Argentina’s Patagonian coast. She was an early ecotourist, as Borboroglu puts it, making several trips by horse and wagon to see the birds throughout the 1920s and ’30s – a time when seals were still hunted locally for fur and oil. Her stories spa…