Funds from a global environment grants scheme implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will enable an indigenous community in one of Cambodia’s poorest provinces to build an ecotourism project at a lake recently returned to them from private ownership. The mostly indigenous ethnic Kuoy residents of Romchek village in northeast Preah Vihear province [...]

Eco-tourism. Is this now-fashionable concept basically a contradiction in terms – on a par, as cynics might say, with “business ethics” or “compassionate conservatism”? “Adventure travel” is, of course, a concept as old as the hills, even if some of our greatest adventurers, such as Captain Scott, took great pains to proclaim their serious scientific [...]

When Georg Schluender, a 1987 graduate of Harbor Springs High School, launched a career in ecotourism, he did what most others wish they could do – turn decades of adventure into a full-time job. It all began in high school with an exciting and new sport (at the time) – mountain biking – and his [...]

Few people are fortunate enough to go on a trip to a place that can bring drastic change in their life. I don’t know the names of such people but surely I know the name of a place where one can get close encounters with the abundant nature. The lush green Amazon is the world’s [...]

This year The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) seeks to recognize those who not only take care of guests but Mother Nature as well. To do so, the group has launched its first annual Innovation Leadership in Sustainable Tourism Award. Their aim is to honor ecotourism and sustainable tourism pioneers for their contributions, practices, and inspirational [...]

Leather industry in Bangladesh is one of the most profitable and significantly important sectors no doubt. It is the fourth largest foreign exchange earner of the country contributing about six per cent of total export earnings. At the first sight, it may be viewed as one of the most promising and contributing sectors in the [...]

Just nineteen months back, Bangladesh Awami League formed government in Bangladesh with its electoral manifesto titled ‘Vision 2021′, which was destined for ensuring ‘Digital Bangladesh’. It was greatly understood by many that, Sheikh Hasina and her party copied this theme of Vision 2021 from that of Barack Hussain Obama, who too was set in Presidency [...]

Conservationists say the growth of eco-tourism could help to save Africa’s critically endangered mountain gorillas from extinction. There are just 700 of the animals left on the planet, all of them living in the volcanic mountains spanning Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Decades of conflict in the region, along with poaching and [...]

An environmental audit into palm oil producer PT SMART, paid for by the company, has cleared the company of the destruction of rainforests and orangutan habitats in Indonesia as alleged by a Greenpeace report. The audit, however, found that a fraction of the company’s plantation areas were located on peatlands — a violation of the [...]