RESTORE
Be Part of the Plan to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by adopting nature-enhancing actions in your destinations, supporting local conservation efforts, and delivering Nature-based Solutions to absorb carbon and compensate for your unavoidable impacts.
CONNECT
with your destinations
REGENERATE
nature & biodiversity
FORGE
powerful partnerships
CONNECT
with your destinations
REGENERATE
nature & biodiversity
FORGE
powerful partnerships
The Nature Positive Tourism approach, with its goal to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, goes beyond just impact mitigation. Businesses need to achieve an overall net benefit through strategic positive contributions to nature’s recovery. Nature restoration is more than just protecting the environment, it also enables damaged ecosystems to recover, restoring the natural services they provide.
“The Nature Positive Tourism approach not only seeks to reduce the environmental harm caused by Travel & Tourism, but also to actively inspire business, governments, and society to invest in efforts to protect nature and restore biodiversity in destinations everywhere.”
– Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary-General of the UN Tourism; Julia Simpson, President & CEO, World Travel & Tourism Council; Glenn Mandziuk, CEO, World Sustainable Hospitality Alliance – members of the Nature Positive Tourism Partnership
RESTORE – OUR SERVICES
On-the-ground impact is one of our specialities. Working with us, your organisation can access:
- State-of-the art biodiversity data to help you decide where and how to concentrate your efforts and resources.
- Expertise in animal welfare, wildlife management and nature conservation, essential for effective actions to protect and enhance biodiversity.
- In-destination knowledge, through ANIMONDIAL’s Animal Protection Network, and the practicalities of engaging and supporting local communities and partnering with local organisations to achieve your shared goals.
- Destination state of nature information, including access to national biodiversity plans, maps of key biodiversity areas or areas designated as protected, and the presence of threatened species and fragile habitats: vital information to guide your decision-making.
- Global conservation priorities insight on positive actions like ecosystem restoration, Nature-based Solutions and those that provide carbon mitigation opportunity, and tools to help Regenerate Destinations.
CASE STUDIES
Partnering for biodiversity with Intrepid and Blue Carbon Lab
The Intrepid Foundation – the non-profit arm of Intrepid Travel – supports a portfolio of biodiversity protection and restoration projects in Australia through domestic partners including The Blue Carbon Lab. They use cutting-edge research to mitigate climate change and support the protection of three crucial blue carbon ecosystems. These projects work with local communities, citizen scientists and volunteers, including the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.
A sanctuary for marine mammals with DER Touristik Group and the Aegean Marine Life Sanctuary
Aegean Marine Life Sanctuary c. Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation
Keen to help identify a solution for captive dolphins in European zoos, the DER Touristik Group (DTG), with the support of the DER Touristik Foundation, formed a partnership with the Aegean Marine Life Sanctuary Project (Lipsi, Greece) to establish the first rehabilitation centre for captive dolphins in Europe. The partnership donated vital funds towards the completion of the sanctuary, which included the establishment of a visitor centre and veterinary clinic. The clinic now delivers specialist treatment for injured wildlife and stranded marine mammals in the region.
“ANIMONDIAL has been one of the first organisations who believed in the Aegean Marine Life Sanctuary and supported its creation since the very early stages. The conservation world is in great need of companies like ANIMONDIAL who have animal welfare in their heart and can create bridges linking people who share the same values and want to create a real difference in the protection of wildlife.”
– Anastasia Miliou, Scientific Director, Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation
Restore nature, measure biodiversity, and
access conservation expertise to
regenerate your destinations
WHY RESTORE?
Many of the biodiversity impacts of your services don’t happen at your physical sites, they happen through the activities your customers take part in, the food (and other resources) they consume, and the ways your operations affect local economies. To keep the environment in your destinations robust, resilient and attractive, you need to make sure you aren’t undermining it. Nature restoration is an investment in your destinations with benefits ranging from enhancing biodiversity and absorbing carbon to preventing floods or droughts and providing sustainable economic opportunities for local people.
- Understand the state of nature in your destinations so that decisions are sensitive to local issues and minimise business risk.
- Create good news stories that attract and retain environmentally conscious customers.
- Enhance the appeal of your destinations to increase business resilience and enhance brand reputation.
- Forge strong connections with local communities and government authorities in the areas that your business depends on.
