New parks along the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains would provide a destination for residents and a diversion that might shorten the time visitors spend in the national park, says Locke. The park worked with tourism organizations, media and other sources of visitor information to coordinate a consistent message about the potential impacts of visitor behaviour and how to interact safely with wildlife. If Parks Canada can figure out how to deliver a visitor experience worthy of a national park while still balancing the protection of wildlife and the conservation of habitat in Banff, it will be closer to managing parks better everywhere. "More humans in the parks increases the number of wildlife conflicts and visitor safety issues", says Steve Michel, the national human-wildlife conflict management officer for Parks Canada. [Extracted from the article]
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