Role of ecotourism in conserving forest biomass: A mathematical model

Abstract

Abstract Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving responsible travel to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people. Its purpose may be to educate the traveler, to provide funds for ecological censervation, to directly benifit the economic development, and political empowerment of local communities. Ecotourism has come up as an important conservation strategy in the tropical areas where diversity of species and habitats are threatened because of the traditional forms of development. This study deals with a non-linear mathematical model with a novel idea for sustainable development of biomass with ecotourism which is imperative in the present scenario. Stability and bifurcation analysis of the model is done and it is observed from our study that the system predicts unstability and exhibits bifurcation if ecotourism goes beyond a threshold value.