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Eco-Friendly Travel - Sustainable Expeditions
What is Sustainable Travel?
Unlike the world of 50 years ago, today nearly everyone travels, to destinations near and far. The world has truly become a much smaller place than it it was just a generation or two ago. Travel by its very nature has an impact - often negative - on the environment, on the cultures and on the economies of local people who play host to tourism throughout the world. This is why sustainable travel - travel that leaves the world a better place for us having been there - is essential to help maintain a healthy balance between providing a means to enjoy the journey while at the same time protecting the very resources that attract us to lands near and far in the first place.
The Impacts of Travel and Tourism
Whether or not we like to think about it, the sheer process of travel depletes natural resources and causes pollution. Creating and maintaining the infrastructure for tourism often brings negative physical impacts on the environment... [read more]
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Our Sustainable Trips |
1 = easy 5 = most challenging |
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Costa Rica Casa Zelendon Artificial Reef Project Rebuilding the Reef Systems of the Pacific Coast |
8 days / 7 nights | AR - 3 | |
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Egypt Surveying Ancient Cultures Above & Below the Sea 6,000 Years of History in 2 Weeks: Cairo, Luxor & the Red Sea |
15 days / 13 nights | AR - 1 | |
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Fiji Kadavu Island Koro School Improvements Educational Support Programs & Renovations for Fiji's Schools |
10 days / 9 nights | AR: 4 | |
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Florida Keys Florida Bay Mangrove Madness Restoring the Mangrove Estuary & Florida Bay Grasslands |
4 days / 3 nights | AR: 1 | |
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Guatemala Tecnico Maya Vocational School Project Building Green & Teaching Others in Guatemala |
8 days / 7 nights | AR: 2 | |
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Haiti Les Ceyes Orphanage & Medical Center Project Lending a Helping Hand to Rebuild Southern Haiti |
9 days / 8 nights | AR: 3 | |
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St. Croix Be a Farmer in Paradise! Organic Farming & Sustainable Practices for Reef Preservations |
8 days / 7 nights | AR: 2 | |
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Australia - Great Barrier Reef - Whitsundays Dive with Marine Conservationists at the Whitsundays, Australia Join an Underwater Conservation Group |
4 days / 3 nights | ||
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Australia - Lord Howe Island Be a Volunteer Marine Conservationist at a World Heritage Site |
7 days / 6 nights | ||
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Australia - Great Barrier Reef - Orpheus Island Volunteer as a Coral Reef Surveyor |
4 days / 3 nights | ||
