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Enjoy them while you can? The ecotourism challenge facing Australia's favourite islands

  • Written by Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, University of South Australia
Enjoy them while you can? The ecotourism challenge facing Australia's favourite islandsRemarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.Greg Brave/Shutterstock

I fell for Kangaroo Island from my first visit. I recall standing on a headland on the island’s southern coast, near Remarkable Rocks (a popular tourist site), and being awestruck by the Southern Ocean.

The island (Australia’s third-largest after Tasmania and...

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