Owen T Nevin,^1,* Peter Swain,^2,** Ian Convery<sup>3,***,****

1</sup>1CQUniversity Australia Bryan Jordan Drive Gladstone 4680 Queensland, Australia
²2Visitor Services South East Alberta Provincial Parks Canada
³3Centre for Wildlife Conservation University of Cumbria Penrith CA11 0AH, UK

^*Owen T. Nevin is currently the Dean of the School of Graduate Research at CQUniversity in Queensland, Australia. Before joining CQUniversity, Professor Nevin was the Head of the National School of Forestry at the University of Cumbria in the U.K. He had previously held positions as Programme Director for Conservation Biology at the University of Cumbria and University of Central Lancashire.
^**Peter Swain, M.S., is currently Head of Visitor Services for South East Alberta Provincial Parks. He completed a Masters by Research at the University of Central Lancashire where his research (‘The value of watchable wildlife: measuring the impacts of bear-viewing in British Columbia’) was supervised by Dr. Owen Nevin. He has worked extensively as a naturalist guide in Western Canada and was General Manager of Knight Inlet Lodge, Canada's premier bear-viewing destination.
^***Corresponding author: Ian.convery@cumbria.ac.uk
^****Dr. Ian Convery is a Reader in Conservation and Forestry in the National School of Forestry, University of Cumbria. His main research interests are related to community resource use and place studies, with a particular focus on conservation and nature.