COMMIT
Make the Nature Positive Tourism approach an integral part of your business. Define SMART targets and clear, ambitious yet feasible goals to address your greatest business risks & impacts. Combine your biodiversity, climate change and pollution-reduction actions under one nature positive strategy.
DEFINE
your policy commitment
DEVELOP
your strategy with SMART targets and planned actions
COMMUNICATE
your policy to partners, suppliers, colleagues and customers
DEFINE
your policy commitment
DEVELOP
your strategy with SMART targets and planned actions
COMMUNICATE
your policy to partners, suppliers, colleagues and customers
A nature positive commitment involves a broad but clear statement of what actions your business intends to take to reduce impacts and proactively restore nature. It should identify key issues that will be addressed and the approaches to be taken, such as engaging the value chain, partnering with non-profits or governmental initiatives, modifying existing operations or setting internal standards. Your nature positive commitment is invaluable for developing and implementing future activities.
COMMIT – OUR SERVICES
ANIMONDIAL can help you develop your commitment to sustainability and reversing biodiversity loss through an overarching ‘nature positive’ or sustainability plan, or as focused policies on single issues (e.g. animal protection). Working with us, we can ensure your teams have everything they need:
- Knowledge & understanding of your requirements to act for animals & nature.
- Clear objectives and direction to address your nature-related risks and impacts, including details of unacceptable activities.
- Target-setting, prioritised actions & an integrated approach that ensures delivery throughout the business.
- Defined actions for marketing & communications teams, product & purchasing, customer-facing staff and destination-based staff.
- Aligned communications to explain your commitment, objectives, targets & actions internally and externally, and to define responsibilities.
- Methods to monitor & report on progress.
- Supplier & NGO partnership engagement processes to integrate your approach throughout your value chain and destinations.
CASE STUDIES
Commitment to animal welfare in the supply chain with Explore! & Hotelplan
We worked with the team at Explore! & Hotelplan to create an integrated approach to safeguarding animals in the supply chain. The policy simplified the complex topic and the implications for the business, considering the broad range of relevant activities. It categorised activities by evidenced risk, defined mitigating actions, and explained measures to manage risk and apply safeguards. A workshop helped to integrate the company’s revised commitment and to empower employees through interactive learning sessions.
“Explore! wholeheartedly support the work of ANIMONDIAL. With animal welfare sitting at the heart of so many of our trips, we needed a robust policy that will protect the wildlife around us for generations to come. Their knowledge, passion and objectivity will shape your programme as it has ours.”
– Prue Stone, Global Head of Sustainability, Explore! & Hotelplan
Strategy development to protect animals in global destinations with DER Touristik
Covering an extensive global portfolio of 130 companies and 10,000 employees, across 16 countries, the group’s animal protection policy and implementation strategy required a multi-faceted approach. This included a policy that committed the business to safeguarding animal welfare and combating illegal wildlife trade, professional trainings across both outbound and inbound markets, and detailed communication guidance to integrate the policy and its priority actions throughout all the functions of all the companies, and across all destinations.
“ANIMONDIAL has helped us to establish policies and detailed guidelines that allow us a joint approach within the DER Touristik Group and our network of partners when dealing with animal experiences. With its wealth of expertise ANIMONDIAL has helped us to significantly raise our capacity in all issues related to animal welfare and we are grateful for the valuable cooperation.”
– Ulrike Braun, Head of Sustainability, DER Touristik Group
Good elephant feeding c. ANIMONDIAL
Combine your biodiversity, climate change and pollution-reduction actions under one
nature positive strategy
“Only 15% organisations have a Nature Positive roadmap in place, and less than 50% extend to their supply chain”.
– NatureMetrics, 2024
WHY COMMIT?
Climate change and nature loss are disrupting the ecosystems that provide us food, clean water and fresh air. The UN’s Biodiversity Plan, through its commitment to domestic legislation, requires every business to play its part in lessening impact on nature. Everyone must try to avoid contributing to the loss of wild places, unsustainable use of natural resources, climate change, pollution, and introduction of invasive species.
- Defining clear policy and strategy goals enables streamlined, effective action for nature and pragmatic targets against which to measure progress.
- Aligning all your sustainability initiatives under one plan provides clarity and efficiency.
- Clear messaging enhances brand identity, guides reporting and strengthens internal and external communications.
- Strategic planning supports full-business integration and coherent inter-departmental action.
Biodiversity is Fundamental to Sustainability
To have a productive and sustainable economy and thriving society, we need a stable climate, an abundance of fresh water and rich biodiversity on land and in the oceans. This is clearly presented by the Stockholm Resilience Centre’s ‘Wedding Cake’ diagram which shows the dependencies between the SDGs. Businesses need to reflect this by centring nature in their sustainability strategies.
As with all other parts of the economy, travel & tourism contributes to biodiversity loss. Yet, with the right safeguards in place, tourism can drive economic growth and sustainable development, promote the health of both people and planet by supporting local communities, and drive investments in Nature-based Solutions and Protected Areas.
