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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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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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Volcanoes Safaris (VS) has been the pioneer in rebuilding mountain gorilla tourism in post-conflict Uganda since 1997 and in Rwanda since 2000. It is the only safari company to have signed the UN Kinshasa Declaration on Great Apes, and the only company to have built its own eco-lodges near three mountain gorilla parks and a threatened chimpanzee population in Kyambura Gorge, Uganda. Conceived and built by visionary conservationist Praveen Moman, Volcanoes Safaris boasts four unique luxury lodges – Virunga Lodge, Volcanoes National Park Rwanda, Mount Gahinga Lodge, Mgahinga National Park Uganda, Bwindi Lodge, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Uganda, and Kyambura Gorge Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park Uganda. All of the lodges are sensitive to local culture and aesthetics, echoing local traditional design, whilst providing all the luxury modern conveniences for a supremely comfortable stay.
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Perhaps the most significant opportunity for outbound operators to engage in conservation travel is through the inspiration of their travelers. Learn how Natural Habitat Adventures and WWF have developed a holistic approach to integrating a conservation message throughout the entire client experience (including marketing, pre-trip services, and on-trip), and how these efforts have resulted in substantial traveler engagement in conservation initiatives.
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