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Environment
One of the ways that this tour makes a difference is by visiting and supporting the AfriCat Foundation. This tour takes you there on Day 2. The AfriCat Foundation is a private nature reserve which is a non-profit organization. This organization promotes awareness about large carnivores and the environment. They also provide humane housing and treatment and care for orphaned and injured animals. AfriCat has rescued more than 850 cheetahs and leopards and over 85% have been released back into the wild. By visiting this foundation you are supporting their cause – this is something that we encourage.
We also visit Etosha National Park. The funds that are part of the entrance fee (included in this tour) to this national park are used to preserve the area and the inhabitants. This protects about 114 mammal species, 340 bird species, 110 reptile species, 16 amphibian species and even 1 fish species! The entrance fee for this National Park and others that we go to are all used to preserve and conserve the areas. But visiting areas like this you can help to keep the project ‘alive’.
We stay at the Twyfelfontein Lodge which was built with care to reduce the visual impact on the environment and to blend into the mountainside with the use of thatch roofs, natural stone and paint colours toning in with the surrounding rock formations. The Twyfelfontein area, being a very vulnerable and delicate ecosystem, is renowned for some of the best examples of Bushman paintings and rock engravings in southern Africa and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the lodge is located in the heart of this conservancy. We always do out utmost to source accommodation that has been built and developed in such a way that it is unobtrusive to the surrounding area!
Community
Our Namibia lodge safari supports local guides, local conservation projects and more. We encourage our clients at all times to act in a responsible manner through our guides and the places that we visit.
A place we visit is the Petrified Forest area to look at the Bushman’s art, fossils, and colourful concentrations of petrified wood and surrounding areas. The Petrified Forest is a National Park and a Science & Education Centre – which includes a non-profit museum. This centre promotes their time and effort to protecting the areas and educating people that visit this area. This means people can learn about their projects and support them.
This tour is also a small group safari tour – meaning less intrusion along our travels to the surrounding areas and its inhabitants. Our guides are also local guides who know the area and are passionate about it. They are trained in such a way which ensures that they teach clients how to act in a responsible manner throughout the tour in an environmentally friendly way from recycling to treating the area’s with respect including water savings and animal & cultural sensitivity.
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