Our Carbon Footprint

Trekforce Worldwide is Carbon Neutral

"Individuals travelling with Trekforce Worldwide can be sure that the damage caused by their journeys is minimised through investment in the regeneration of some of the world's most endangered habitat."

TFW & the World Land Trust

"Trekforce Worldwide has strong links to both the charity sector and conservation work and WLT is proud to be working with them to help assess carbon emissions and support further conservation work. Together we have examined the expeditions run by Trekforce and continue working to offset the carbon emissions generated by them, primarily through flights."

WLT's Carbon Balanced programme

The Carbon Balanced programme (www.carbonbalanced.org) is dedicated to providing measurable carbon offsets to individuals and organisations through the regeneration and conservation of threatened habitats. Through carbon balancing, individuals can contribute to the regeneration of natural forest on land that has been cleared by others, typically for agriculture. By applying the WLT's conservation criteria and measurably sequestering CO2, the habitat of critically endangered species is being regenerated and their future secured. The Carbon Balanced programme operates using the following aims:

1. Dual conservation and environmental benefits from an experienced international conservation charity.
2. Charity status, with the transparency and low overheads that have become the hall marks of WLT.
3. Measurability/Verifiability of Offsets from an extensive scientific programme that focuses on the importance of additionality, leakage, permanence and long term monitoring.

Conservation in Ecuador

One of the projects supported by the Carbon Balanced programme is the Buenaventura Reserve in Ecuador. This is where the endangered El Oro Parakeet was discovered in 1980 and is renowned for being one of the richest ornithological sites in the Ecuadorian Andes. It is also home to many mammal species, including the Puma, Ocelot, Mantled Howler Monkey and Sloth. The Reserve has a rich fauna and is situated in a remnant tropical cloud forest on the western slope of the Andes. The reserve is managed by WLT's project partner, Fundación Jocotoco, an Ecuadorian organisation established to protect Ecuador's endangered birds and associated biodiversity. The Fundación achieves this by purchasing lands and managing them as ecological reserves. They currently manage eight reserves in different areas of the country.

The World Land Trust is an international conservation charity (Reg. No. 1001291), based in Halesworth, a rural town in Suffolk, UK. Since its foundation in 1989, WLT has been working to preserve biologically important and threatened lands, and has helped purchase and protect over 350,000 acres of habitats rich in wildlife throughout Central and Southern America, India, the Philippines and the UK.

http://www.carbonbalanced.org/corporate/index.htm gives more information on carbon balancing and how you can help.