The economic benefits from public visitation of protected areas (including for tourism, recreation and environmental education) are estimated to be large. Brazil’s national parks alone could generate between BRL 1.6 and 1.8 billion annually until 2016 (Medeiros and Young, 2011, also see Box 5.3). Semeia (2014) estimates that the potential income from tourism in protected areas could reach as much as BRL 53 billion over 10 years.