What we do
- Develop skills that lead to jobs in the ecotourism or conservation sector and their related businesses;
- Promote linkages between eco-tourism enterprises and local suppliers of goods and services;
- Assist communities to get ownership or control of high-value conservation land;
- Provide planning, transaction advice and mediation services for businesses on community-held conservation land;
- Facilitate grants and long-term loans to fund community ownership of lodges and other profitable tourism enterprises;
- Help set up and support community-based organisations that encourage sound governance and the fair distribution of benefits to local residents, especially poor and marginal groups;
- Promote the adoption of responsible labour and environmentally responsible business practices;
- Contribute to biodiversity conservation by demonstrating the long-term value of undisturbed wilderness to local residents;
- Document lessons learnt from our projects so they can be extended to other sectors of the industry; and
- Lobby governments, industry associations, civil society organisations and others to adopt measures that enhance the ability of ecotourism operations to contribute to sustainable development.
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