The Bali Animal Welfare Association’s street feeding team does some amazing and under appreciated work helping the stray dogs of Bali. Find out what happened when I spent a day with them.
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A Day With BAWA’s Street Feeding Team In Bali.
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Why I Walked Across Mount Bromo’s Sea Of Sand.
As an animal lover and a strong campaigner for responsible animal tourism I couldn’t bring myself to ride the horses on offer to experience the famed trek across the seas of sand at Mount Bromo in Indonesia, and ended up walking in protest at their treatment.
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Posted in Responsible Travel
Palm Oil Is Burning Borneo.
Borneo is burning. Orang utans are being made extinct and their once beautiful natural habitat is being destroyed by greed and the relentless expansion of the palm oil industry. Here is what travellers can do about it.
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Posted in Responsible Travel
Travelling Through A Burning Hell In South East Asia, And No One Cares.
Travellers throughout certain parts of south east Asia have in recent weeks faced disrupted or cancelled flights, rerouted travel plans, smoke filled landscapes and other minor inconveniences that are minor symptoms of an ecological catastrophe known as the Haze. A catastrophe that is going largely ignored on a local and global scale.
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Visiting The Dragos Voda Bison Reserve In Romania.
The Dragos Voda Bison Reserve in Romania is getting the balance between tourism and conservation absolutely right, and by succeeding in their mission to prevent these animals from going extinct they are the perfect example of how tourism and zoo breeding programmes can have a positive impact.
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How Responsible Travel Is Boosting Welsh Tourism.
Wales is a surprising responsible tourism hotspot, with ethical dolphin spotting tours and wildlife spotting just the beginning…
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Posted in Responsible Travel
How Travellers Can Make A Difference On World Elephant Day.
August 12 is World Elephant Day, a day designed to bring attention to the plight of the Asian and African elephant and the numerous threats they face, and raise awareness of how close we are to losing these magnificent creatures to extinction forever. Although travel and tourism has the potential to play a huge role in conservation efforts, unfortunately it still also plays a huge role in the negative impact on the elephant population and it is up to us as travellers to make sure that we play our part in having a positive impact instead.
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Posted in Responsible Travel
The Big Voluntourism Lie.
The gap year voluntourism industry is hardly a pinnacle of ethical, responsible tourism at the best of times, but now their dirty little secret is about to be exposed, and the lie they have been telling travellers for a long time will be laid bare.
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Posted in Responsible Travel
Wildlife Tourism Without Wildlife Harm. Is It Possible?
Wildlife tourism is coming under increasing scrutiny in recent years, and rightly so, but is all wildlife tourism bad? Does any attraction involving any animal always harm the animals involved? Or can some wildlife tourism be a positive force for good in the conservation chain? The truth isn’t as black and white as some people are starting to think. If you want to see or interact with wildlife on your travels, follow these simple steps for responsible wildlife tourism.
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Disaster Tourism And The Darker Side Of Travel.
Disaster tourism is essentially the act of travelling to a disaster area out of a matter of curiosity, or using a disaster to create profit in the form of organised tours and treks. In some circumstances it can have a positive impact but there is an even more stygian side to this aspect of dark tourism that comes with every natural disaster and ventures beyond mere voyeurism. It is this side of disaster tourism which can actually do more harm than good. The key is knowing the difference.
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