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Understanding Philanthropic Travel
“Ultimately conservation is about people. If you don’t have sustainable development around these (wildlife) parks, then people will have no interest in them, and the parks will not survive.” -Nelson Mandela
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Eco-friendly updates for California’s Bancroft Hotel
Located in Berkeley, California, boutique property The Bancroft Hotel has partnered with environmentally safe furniture refinishing company The Refinishing Touch to update furniture in a very green way as part of a large-scale renovation project.
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Fairmont Hotels raises money for California parks
The hotel giant is helping to raise the funds to promote the Save Our Parks Campaign to boost travelers’ eco-awareness, providing guests the opportunity to contribute $1 dollar per room night between September 1, 2009 and November 30, 2009.
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Eco eating in Crete: new Responsible Travel programs help preserve culture with tourism and good food
Crete’s Culinary Sanctuaries, the educational travel program noted for best practices in Responsible Travel, is offering a new workshop to educate professionals in tourism, conservation, agriculture, and the culinary arts from October 11-18, 2009 on how to implement programs that include heritage preservation, organic agriculture, and building mutually beneficial relations between local populations and the tourist trade.
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Help protect the Belize Barrier Reef with the support of the United Nations
The UN Foundation has officially listed the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System as “World Heritage in Danger” due to unsustainable tourism activity. The designation hopes to encourage responsible tourism that is crucial to the economic well-being of the region while highlighting the site’s unique natural value.
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Luxury travel services ramp up ecosystem preservation in the Galapagos
Companies like Exclusive Galapagos Cruises are offering luxury Galapagos cruises and customized tours, family vacations, private charters for all sizes of groups in the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon Rain Forest, and Cultural Tour Experiences in Ecuador, Peru and South America.
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Miami's Mandarin Oriental gets in on the Volunteer Adventure action at Everglades National Park
The popular Miami hotel just launched a new “voluntourism” program at Everglades National Park in which guests can make a difference to the environment and help preserve this UNESCO World Heritage site via tree planting, recycling projects and exotic plant removal programs.
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13 free things to do in Sonoma's 'Wine Country'
In tough economic times, a vacation in Sonoma’s wine country that centers on free, or almost free, activities is just the prescription. With a reputation as a wine country that is welcoming, friendly and relaxed, Sonoma County is also known as a great value for those seeking the lifestyle of great wine and fresh food.
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Hawaii funds 25 natural resource community projects
The Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) has just announced its 2009 Natural Resources Program awards, awarding funding to 25 programs throughout the state.
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Renowned ‘voluntourism’ company celebrates its 10,000th Yellowstone volunteer
Tauck World Discovery celebrates a unique milestone recently when it hosted the 10,000th participant in its award-winning guest-volunteer program in Yellowstone National Park.
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New interactive website to help children learn about the environment
The new Chuckie Goodnight Foundation website provides users with an interactive experience to learn more about the non-profit environmental organization and ways to help spread environmental awareness.
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New Jersey’s Marriott Seaview Resort & Spa helps protect turtles
Seaview Resort & Spa, a Marriott resort in New Jersey is taking environmentally friendly actions to become a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary and help preserve the Diamondback Terrapins.
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Travel to Costa Rica and Save the Rainforest with VBT Bicycling Vacations
For guests booking bicycle tours from August 11-25, VBT will make a donation to the Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre program, preserving Costa Rica’s endangered rainforest.
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'Nature Interrupted' at the Chelsea Art Museum
The urgent and imperative message to restore health to the environment must be conveyed in every possible form of media and communication, and more so in art, for it is one of the most powerful languages humans have ever created.
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Experience stagecoach travel on the American Frontier
The route of the stagecoach is once again alive with prospectors, pioneers heading west, cowboys, mail carriers, and soldiers. Stagecoaches began the first transcontinental mail delivery in 1858, along torturous routes through seas of towering prairie grass, parched desert, and across rocky mountain trails.
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World Heritage Expeditions – a partnership with the American Museum of Natural History
AMNH Expeditions, the educational travel program of the American Museum of Natural History, and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre have launched an exciting partnership aimed at increasing the public’s awareness of the need to protect and preserve the values of World Heritage sites.
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Local Chiang Mai Village and Flight of the Gibbon Conservation Project team up to protect local primate population
In an effort to save the dwindling primate population in and around the village of Mae On, the Flight of the Gibbon Conservation Project and local villagers have teamed up to form the Primate Habitat Restoration Project to plant 1500 fruit trees in a designated, protected habitat area and will act as a refuge and a food source for the primates.
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New hotel rating system based on ‘Karma’ 
Disney inspires 1 million volunteers 
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