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Rainforest Expeditions is a for-profit ecotourism provider that has partnered with a native community, to establish an ecotourism venture in the Tambopata Region of Madre de Dios, Peru. Unfortunately this endeavor will be ending in 2016. This report explores that partnership in practice and analyzes mistakes and lessons learned, and provides recommendations for similar contracts moving forward. Rachel Tennant 2012
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“Preserving wilderness, wildlife, and cultural heritage across the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem by creating sustainable economic benefits for the Maasai people” The world increasingly relies on many traditional communities like the Maasai to protect the ecological treasures that exist within the land that they own. But the incredible wilderness and wildlife of Africa’s grasslands and the famous culture of the Maasai people both face daunting threats to their long-term survival. The fate of both rests with the Maasai themselves as they work to figure out how to benefit from their incredible natural resources while preserving them.
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A leader in adventure travel since 1978, Wilderness Travel offers innovative journeys on all seven continents, featuring expert trip leaders, meticulously planned itineraries, and small groups. Committed from the beginning to culturally sensitive and ecologically responsible travel, we strongly believe that tourism can be an extraordinary tool to connect people across borders and cultures, and to promote a more environmentally sustainable and just world.
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Combine a height of 3400 metres and a - 25 degrees Celsius weather forecast, and you have the perfect conditions to track the elusive Snow Leopard. It was 6 years ago that we began our first Snow Leopard program. The first year we had only one sighting of the much anticipated and very elusive Grey Ghost. With each passing year, sightings got closer and increased in quality, and by the third year our trekkers had 8 sightings of 5 different Snow Leopards. From then on, pictures went viral and the elusive cat was no longer a myth but a reality for many, and a new tourism industry for Ladakh had formed.
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Today, there are 5 main National Parks where Bengal tigers roam freely, and Madhya Pradesh (Central India) is the core habitat. In prior years, some of the National Parks were connected by corridors through which the tigers had a larger area to move around in and create territories of their own. Today these Parks have been encroached upon by roads, highways, large villages and farmland. Unfortunately, in order to create the National Parks and preserve the wildlife, government had to relocate small villages that were spread out within the jungles; however, it is this relocation which has formed larger villages that block the corridors. Still being remote, these villages largely depend on farming and livestock for their daily necessities. This is where man animal conflict begins can pose danger to both groups. The rules are only known by the humans, wildlife still venture out in hopes of finding new territory, injured predators will feast on livestock and ruin farmland.
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READ Global

BACKGROUND In 1991, Myths and Mountains and its founder, Dr. Antonia Neubauer, designed and implemented a unique sustainable development model, READ Global (www.readglobal.org), that has changed how many people and organizations today are working with communities. READ’s goal was to use library community centers combined with local businesses and training to help make rural villages viable places to live. This model has impacted the lives of 2.1 million villagers, seeded 117 for-profit enterprises to sustain READ Centers and serves 241 villages throughout Nepal, Bhutan and India. Moreover, the success of the READ model has led many organizations to rethink how they operate overseas and redefine what “sustainability” actually means.
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After putting together a special itinerary for the AfriCat Foundation and experiencing wild success in raising critical program funding, Ultimate Safaris sought to create an even better travel experience, this time raising money to fund projects associated with three different local non-profits. By costing the donation out of the trip, travelers were able to receive a tax deduction, the non-profits were guaranteed a set donation, and the trips sold fast, a win for everybody.
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