Conservation Permits
Gorilla and chimpanzee permits fund the park authorities responsible for ranger patrols and habitat protection. We book through the proper channels every time, even when it would be quicker to cut corners.
Responsible travel, to us, is less a marketing line and more a set of everyday choices — which lodges we book, which guides we hire, and how we plan routes through sensitive habitats.
None of this is perfect or finished. It is an ongoing set of commitments we try to hold ourselves to on every trip we plan.
Gorilla and chimpanzee permits fund the park authorities responsible for ranger patrols and habitat protection. We book through the proper channels every time, even when it would be quicker to cut corners.
Guides and drivers on our trips are hired from the communities near the parks we visit, because their knowledge of the terrain and wildlife is often better than anything we could bring in from further afield.
We keep group sizes modest on treks and cultural visits, which reduces pressure on habituated families and on the villages that host visitors, and makes for a quieter experience besides.
Where a community-owned lodge or campsite meets the standard, we use it. More of what you spend then stays in the district you are travelling through rather than leaving with an outside operator.
We keep to the distance rules on treks and game drives, stay in the vehicle where required, and do not press guides to break protocol for a photograph. The animals are not there to perform.
Vehicles carry refillable water rather than cases of single-use bottles, and rubbish comes back out of the parks with us. Small measures, but they compound across a season of trips.
Tell us roughly when you would like to travel and what draws you here, and we will take it from there.
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