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6Impact assessments should pay special attention to indigenous peoples and local communities, tomarket volatility which can impact local revenues, and to cumulative impacts of multiple successiveprojects on-site and applying the ecosystems approach on the wider landscape.7There are a wide-ranging set of management approaches and initiatives that have been extensivelytested for improving benefits to biodiversity through tourism. Parties and partners are encouraged toidentify those most suited to their needs and adapt them to their realities.8Management should be adaptive, in order to be able to respond to uncertainties. Monitoring andreporting should be done through a continuous participatory process, incorporating the indicatorframework for baseline information collection, and focusing on outcomes, outputs and impactmeasurements.9Certification agents, NGOs, educational bodies and other entities can provide capacity-building, andtogether with media can promote awareness on sustainable tourism, for consumers, indigenouspeoples and local communities, government, business and educational bodies. Training and resourcemobilization can help to build capacity within governments, protected areas authorities and otherstakeholders.10Regular voluntary reporting to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity on bestpractices and lessons learned through the Clearinghouse Mechanism is important to support cooperationand facilitate matching technical and scientific offers and needs.Tourism Supporting Biodiversity v

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