Whale and wildlife holiday in Scotland

In Scotland (as with everywhere we go) we carefully choose accommodation, supplies and transportation that either minimises its effect on the environment or helps to contribute to its sustainable development. By choosing small, privately owned accommodation where possible as we are always looking at ways to lower our ecological footprint and smaller companies are usually much better at this than larger ones. Where possible, we make sure that the hotels, bed & breakfasts and inns that we use support local projects for the protection of the wildlife and local communities which rely on tourism as the principal source of income. We try and make sure that all the accommodation that we use is are ecologically responsible and use solar power electricity and water recycling pumps etc as well as making sure that all the food consumed is produced locally. It is also vitally important that when we use the boats for wildlife watching we a marine responsible. Such policies include that all rubbish created onboard is brought ashore and we have a strict recycling policy for all non-organic waste. Our skipper and other professionals discuss the local shore and marine environment, wildlife and ecosystems as part of our standard wildlife tour; making a point of highlighting the environmental problems that are associated with human impact on the UK marine ecosystems. We also contribute and participate in as many studies that the local researchers are conducting as possible.

Wildlife Promise:

By bringing people here with a professional zoologist as well as professional local guides we aim to showcase the environment in full but also to allow you to learn about the problems facing the ecosystems here and highlight the ways that continued development and human exploitation are affecting the species and how cutting edge research is countering the problems as well as showing you examples of success stories. We also keep a record of all the great sightings we see on each tour and record the environmental factors, this data is used by ourselves but also given to the researchers who are working on many of these species. Research groups like CCRU (which our guide for these tours has worked for) collect data on marine mammals for their on going studies. Such as contributing our pictures and videos to the local and global humpback whale identification programs.