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Wildlife travel in 2016

Top tips for responsible trips

Planning Travel During your trip Volunteering Back at home
‘Green’ hotels are a good Choosing direct flights Small gestures like eating Sadly, not all organisations It’s possible to offset the
way to go. They often will reduce your carbon in local restaurants are a offer what they say they carbon from your trip,
employ staff from local footprint, as most emissions great way of supporting do, so it’s worth doing using a number of websites © freevectormaps.com; Thinkstock; Nature PL; Getty; Corbis; Alamy
villages, donate money to are made during takeoff local communities. Try to some homework about that can calculate how
the nearest nature reserve, and landing. Also getting tour with companies known which ones to support. For much you’ve used. Your
or have an environmentally to grips with the local to have a positive impact instance, breeding lions small donation often goes
friendly approach (such as transport once you’re there on the local wildlife and in captivity has limited towards planting trees,
recycling or not washing can be an adventurous way that are contributing to benefit, as they can never which will improve habitats
towels every day). of reducing your impact. long-term conservation. be released into the wild. for wildlife.

Who to travel with

Budget Mid-range Luxury
Naturetrek The Great Projects Steppes Travel
WWW.NATURETREK.CO.UK WWW.THEGREATPROJECTS.COM WWW.STEPPESTRAVEL.CO.UK
Koshi Tappu Wildlife Camp, Nepal Samboja Lestari Orangutan Volunteer Project Luxury Cruise with Chris Packham
£570 per person for seven nights, including From £1,195 per person for 12 nights, including £10,895 per person for 17 days, including
meals and airport transfers, excluding flights meals, excluding flights flights from Cairns to Papua New Guinea

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