Natural Habitat Philanthropy
Conservation travel has transformative power. It can benefit communities, safeguard wildlife and preserve cultural heritage. In addition to our conservation travel partnership with World Wildlife Fund, established in 2003, Natural Habitat Adventures also engages in various philanthropic initiatives in the destinations we visit. Nat Hab's commitment to conservation and sustainable development has inspired our leadership role in boosting grassroots efforts in places our guests have come to know and love. We actively pursue innovative efforts to conserve the environment and promote the welfare of local communities.
If you are in charge of a sustainability project that aligns with our values in places we operate, or if you wish to learn more about our existing projects, please email us, or call Court Whelan, Nat Hab's Director of Sustainability and Conservation Travel, at 800-543-8917.
If you are in charge of a sustainability project that aligns with our values in places we operate, or if you wish to learn more about our existing projects, please email us, or call Court Whelan, Nat Hab's Director of Sustainability and Conservation Travel, at 800-543-8917.
Current Nat Hab Philanthropy Projects
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Arctic Fox Center
Arctic Fox Center
The center features a large exhibit that offers insights into ongoing local research and educates visitors about the life and history of Arctic foxes—Iceland’s sole native land mammal.
Asian Leopard Conservation
Asian Leopard Conservation
The Leopard Trust, a Colombo-based nongovernmental organization, has begun a four-year study of Sri Lanka's leopards—the country's first scientific leopard survey in Yala National Park.
Cheetah Conservation Fund
Cheetah Conservation Fund
Funding goes to purchasing two GPS collars that provide valuable research data on cheetah movements and patterns, and ultimately serve to alleviate human-wildlife conflict in Namibia.
Churchill Northern Studies Center: Rocket Greens
Churchill Northern Studies Center: Rocket Greens
The Churchill Northern Studies Center is an independent, nonprofit research and education facility. In November 2017 a cutting-edge Growcer hydroponic growing system was installed at the center.
Comupuba Women’s Co-Op
Comupuba Women’s Co-Op
Compuba is a women's commission from Punta Banco, a small coastal town in Costa Rica. Focusing on agriculture and tourism, Compuba's mission is to make natural products with fruits and herbs from local gardens.
Danadais
Danadais
For each Nat Hab traveler who experiences the monarch butterfly migration in Mexico's protected Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Nat Hab donates $5 to WWF Mexico to help support local conservation initiatives.
Kyaninga Child Development Center
Kyaninga Child Development Center
Kyaninga provides specialist rehabilitation for children with disabilities, including comprehensive physiotherapy, occupational and speech therapy, and inclusive education services.
Laguna San Ignacio Ecosystem Science Program
Laguna San Ignacio Ecosystem Science Program
Every year, Nat Hab donates $500 directly to Laguna San Ignacio Ecosystem Science Program for each of our groups that visits the gray whales of San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja California Sur.
Little Finches School House
Little Finches School House
This small preschool in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island is a shining example of grassroots education, offering reading groups, yoga classes, textile and art classes, and field trips within the local community.
Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership
Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership
The Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership is a Malagasy NGO that is currently working with local guides and students to study the elusive aye-aye, Madagascar's least understood and rarest lemur.
Oncafari Jaguar Research
Oncafari Jaguar Research
Oncafari is a conservation and research organization that focuses on jaguars in Brazil’s Pantanal to understand and illuminate how jaguars interact with one another and their environment.
RABEN Whale Disentanglement
RABEN Whale Disentanglement
The Mexican Big Whale Disentanglement Network (RABEN) has attended to more than 120 entanglement reports, freeing whales so they can lead healthy normal lives, free from deadly fishing lines.
Wildcat Conservation & Breeding Program: Aigas Field Center
Wildcat Conservation & Breeding Program: Aigas Field Center
Aigas Field Center in Scotland is contributing to an important national program with wildlife parks and the Royal Zoological Society to bring the Scottish wildcat back from the edge of extinction.
Women in Conservation: Beehive Elephant Fencing in Tanzania
Women in Conservation: Beehive Elephant Fencing in Tanzania
Women in Conservation educates and inspires Tanzanian women to build careers in conservation. By identifying obstacles, the organization determines the most viable and sustainable solutions.
Past Nat Hab Philanthropy Projects
Bike Town Africa
Bike Town Africa
Assisting in transportation for health care workers in rural sub-Saharan communities, Bike Town Africa has provided more than 2,000 bicycles for healthcare staff to work at hospitals, clinics and schools.
Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center
Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center
Nat Hab has adopted Wawa, an endangered sun bear that lives at a rehabilitation center we visit in Borneo, covering a full year of her care in hope that she will eventually be released back into the wild.
Bwindi Community School
Bwindi Community School
Helping raise the bar for students from kindergarten through college who live near Uganda’s endangered mountain gorillas, Nat Hab is improving infrastructure at a local school, including six new flush toilets.
Charles Darwin Foundation
Charles Darwin Foundation
For conservation projects to succeed, decision makers need to be armed with sound scientific research, and Nat Hab proudly supports this organization's solid science-based conservation in the Galapagos.
Churchill Anglican Church Restoration
Churchill Anglican Church Restoration
In this small northern community where polar bears prowl the shore of Hudson Bay, an i mportant building used for community and visitor programs is receiving some much-needed upgrades.
Darwin Animal Doctors
Darwin Animal Doctors
In the process of improving the lives of pets in the Galapagos Islands, vets are protecting the islands' native wildlife through free veterinary care, including crucial parvo and distemper vaccinations for local dogs.
Ecology Project International
Ecology Project International
Local scientists and educators in the Galapagos are giving conservation a grassroots boost by increasing science literacy in youth through experiential immersion and hands-on research.
Floreana Biodiversity Heritage Community Campaign
Floreana Biodiversity Heritage Community Campaign
Island Conservation is successfully undertaking an ambitious, multi-phase restoration project that will eradicate invasive species and reestablish native wildlife on the Galapagos island of Floreana.
Garifuna Community School
Garifuna Community School
This school, founded to sustain cultural identity and values among Belize’s Garifuna people, is purchasing new traditional attire and drums to use at local celebrations and performances.
Glacier National Park Climate Film
Glacier National Park Climate Film
A Nat Hab Expedition Leader is making a film about how climate change affects pristine and fragile environments, and Glacier National Park is a prime example of these impacts.
Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership
Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership
The elusive aye-aye lemur, one of Madagascar’s rarest and least understood animals, is the focus of more intense scientific study in order to better understand how to save it from extinction.
Mbuga School Shelter
Mbuga School Shelter
Ndali Lodge, an eco-conscious property where Nat Hab stays during our Uganda gorilla safaris, is building a secondary school building for the community, adding much-needed classrooms for local kids.
Monarch Mural Restoration
Monarch Mural Restoration
A colorful mural depicting a timeline of local history at the center of Angangueo, the center of monarch butterfly ecotourism in Mexico, received a full-scale restoration by local artists.
Primary School in Karatu
Primary School in Karatu
Inspired by our groups' visits while on safari in Tanzania, and by the school's demonstrated need, Gyekrumalambo Primary School is now supported by Nat Hab Philanthropy as its primary benefactor.
Punta Banco Sea Turtle Nesting Project
Punta Banco Sea Turtle Nesting Project
Community-wide efforts have helped save and relocate hundreds of turtle nests in Costa Rica, and we’ve adopted 50 nests in support of this sustainable turtle protection program on the Pacific coast.
Ride4AWoman
Ride4AWoman
Uganda’s Buhoma village women started a successful bike rental business outside Bwindi National Park that is seeding other women-owned entrepreneurial efforts, adding a need for two new sewing machines.
Wild Macaw Project
Wild Macaw Project
Following a successful reintroduction of scarlet macaws, Costa Rica’s Wild Macaw Association is conducting ecological research, habitat protection and community development in the birds' native habitat.
Yellowstone Forever Wolf Project
Yellowstone Forever Wolf Project
Wolf research and monitoring in and around Yellowstone National Park is critical to the long-term health of wild wolves, and we continue to fund the annual collaring of a wolf for a year of scientific study.
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