As a result, there is a clear need for smart diagnostic systems, optimized workflows, and integrated clinical solutions that reduce time-to-diagnosis, improve patient throughput, reduce the need for rescans, and enhance the patient and staff experience. Philips’ new MR portfolio of intelligent integrated solutions is designed to speed up MR exams, streamline workflows, optimize diagnostic quality, and help ensure the efficiency and sustainability of radiology operations.Īs MR imaging plays an ever-increasing role in precision diagnosis, radiology departments face multiple challenges such as workload demands due to the backlog of cases resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing population of clinically challenging patients, and a worldwide shortage of skilled technicians. "A lot of this is influenced by large scale power politics and ecotourism is just one part of that picture.Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced new AI-enabled innovations in MR imaging launching at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting (November 23 – December 2, Chicago, USA). "Even where ecotourism can generate more money than a primary industry, it may still not outweigh that industry, depending on who controls that industry and who gets the money," Professor Buckley said. "If, for a particular area, people can make more money out of ecotourism than they can out of logging they will protect that area of forest and therefore the orangutans."īut, he added, political factors would also determine whether ecotourism helped conserve threatened species. Professor Buckley said previous research suggested ecotourism's main positive impact occurred through the income it generated, which could be used to fund conservation activities that displace logging or poaching.
"If you have enough ecotourism that can displace the logging you get a positive effect." "You get this threshold effect, or switch effect," Professor Buckley said. Positive effects from small-scale ecotourism was not enough to outweigh the main threat to orangutans, which is habitat loss due to logging.īut when the scale of the operation was larger, ecotourism could have a net positive effect on populations, researchers said. ( Ralf Buckley) Orangutans: ecotourism versus loggingīut the impact of ecotourism on orangutans depended on the scale of the operation. "These species are more likely to survive and less likely to become extinct as long as you have ecotourism to help them."Ĭheetahs are one of the species that benefit from ecotourism, regardless of its scale. The study found ecotourism was good news for the cheetah, hoolock gibbon, golden lion tamarin, African wild dog, great green macaw, Egyptian vulture, and African penguin. "But because rhino are under such threat from poaching at the moment nobody is prepared to say how many rhino they have." "We would have liked to have included rhinoceros," Professor Buckley said.
They did this by quantifying the impacts of ecotourism operations on the habitat size, current population, birth and death rates, and migration of the species studied.Īfter all their research they only found sufficient data to analyse for nine out of 133 threatened species worldwide that had been previously studied. Professor Buckley and colleagues scoured the international literature for studies on ecotourism impacts, and integrated the findings into established models that calculate the viability of threatened species' populations. "There hasn't been any method to calculate that in the past." Weighing up the pros and cons for threatened species "The question is at the end of the day is it good or bad," Professor Buckley said. While previous studies have looked at negative and positive impacts separately, Professor Buckley and colleagues have developed the first model to measure the net effect. Previous studies have shown ecotourism can preserve animal populations by such things as habitat preservation or protection from poaching.Įvidence shows ecotourism can also reduce populations by cutting birth rate or survival, for example through disturbance to breeding or feeding. If, for a particular area, people can make more money out of ecotourism than they can out of logging they will protect that area of forest and therefore the orangutans.