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READ Global

Posted by Conservation Travel Curators on September 24, 2015 at 2:28pm in Impact and Non-profits
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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Volcano Safaris Ltd.

Posted by Conservation Travel Curators on September 21, 2015 at 4:02pm in Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM, Non-profits, and Tour operator
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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