When managed carefully, tourism can be a great asset to wildlife areas: increasing public awareness of the importance of conservation, providing income and investment to support longer term stability and generating a sense of pride among local people.
We have worked across many aspects of wildlife tourism on large and small scales. This has included projects to create guidelines for international organisations to use tourism as a means to generate income for and create awareness of species conservation; delivering training to support tourism organisations in adapting their practices to minimise pollution and auditing supply chains to support sustainable sourcing and facilitating trade associations in the development of welfare standards.