Top 10 Nature Positive Vacations
The natural world is one of our greatest assets in fighting change but it is in crisis. Our forest, river, sea and grassland habitats – which absorb up to percent of global carbon emissions – are disappearing at a devastating rate. Tourism plays its part in this global destruction, but it doesn’t have to. All vacations rely on nature and all vacations impact on it. Let’s start turning those impacts into positive ones. Not all vacations have to cost the earth; here’s our top eleven nature positive vacations that actively support the conservation of our wild spaces.

Our trip: Wellness retreat in Wales
Our trip: Amazon photography vacation, Peru
Our trip: Italy rewilding vacation in the Appenines
Our trip: Argentina whale watching tour
Our trip: Kenya safari and beach vacation

Our trip: Activity vacation in Montenegro
Our trip: Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh vacation in Vietnam
Our trip: Yoga vacation, Portugal

Our trip: New year northern lights vacation, Sweden
Our trip: Tanzania Selous safari vacation & Zanzibar

Wellness Retreat in Wales
Hop off the merry-go-round of modern life and sink into nature with yoga, meditation, paddleboarding and more. All the while, your trip actively funds the creation of a new native woodland in the Moel Famau Country Park. Every person booked on this vacation means one more tree planted – a Birch, Oak, Rowan, Holly, Hazel, Hawthorn, Cherry or Elder – to rewild an important habitat for UK native species.Our trip: Wellness retreat in Wales
Amazon Photography Vacation in Peru
Improve your photography skills, explore the Amazon and spot some its most elusive creatures. At the same time create a more resilient habitat for them too. Entry fees into the Tambopata National Reserve and Bahuaia-Sonene National Park support the 30 million hectare Vilcabamba-Amboro Conservation Corridor. Here, the objective is to reverse biodiversity loss by strengthening the voices of local organisations representing over 40 forest-living ethnic groups, and supporting suitable small businesses and agroforestry initiatives.Our trip: Amazon photography vacation, Peru
Rewilding Vacation in the Apennines
A walking and wildlife vacation with a difference. You’ll explore some of Italy’s wildest mountains on foot, tracking brown bears and discovering an exceptionally beautiful area that is being supported through the Rewilding Europe project. For every person traveling, 100sq metres of the Italian Appennines will be rewilded. You’ll also be traveling with our vacation partner that has pledged to become net nature positive across all its trips by 2024. We love that.Our trip: Italy rewilding vacation in the Appenines
Argentina Whale Watching Tour
Immerse yourself in the largest colony of Magellanic penguins in the world and watch orcas lunging into the surf to catch sea lion pups. Patagonian wildlife is as dramatic as the wild open scenery. This trip actively supports the Punta Norte Orca Research team which monitors orca populations to inform conservation efforts. You’re also encouraged to buy a permit to the “Attack Channel” for those unique orca sightings. Funds go directly to Chabut coastal management projects which are helping to maintain and protect the penguin, seal and sea lion colonies along this part of the Patagonian coastline.Our trip: Argentina whale watching tour
Kenya Safari & Beach Vacation
A safari vacation that goes beyond simply watching animals, this wildlife and beach trip immerses you in the knowledge, culture and unique environmental understanding of the nomadic Maasai communities that live in the savannah grasslands surrounding the Masai Mara. 70% of Kenya’s wildlife is estimated to live outside its national parks and reserves, so there is a real need to conserve wildlife on privately-owned land. On this trip you’ll stay on a community-owned nature conservancy adjacent to the Masai Mara National Reserve, where tourism provides the Maasai with a viable alternative to other land uses – sale for development or agriculture, for example – and keeps land for wildlife, creating vital corridors that allow animals to migrate in and out of the Masai Mara reserve.Our trip: Kenya safari and beach vacation

Activity vacation around Lake Skadar, Montenegro
By visiting Lake Skadar, the enormous, beautiful lake between Montenegro and Albania, you’ll be saving wildlife as you swim. The lake is a vital breeding ground for the Dalmatian pelican, one of Europe’s rarest birds, and tourism companies in the area are committed to funding conservation efforts. Kayak in the shadow of towering breeding platforms on an activity vacation, knowing that the money you spent on this trip has helped build them, and, in doing so, has, to date, doubled pelican populations in the area.Our trip: Activity vacation in Montenegro
Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh Vacation in Vietnam
Just one of a number of vacations that fund work to restore our ocean’s kelp forests through marine permaculture. Kelp forests are a vital marine habitat, sustaining biodiversity by offering shelter and food for a range of fish and sea invertebrates. They are also a buffer against climate-induced change – reducing coastal erosion by absorbing the power of storm surges and waves.Our trip: Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh vacation in Vietnam
Yoga Vacation in Portugal
This yoga retreat in Portugal’s remote Sierra de Estrela Mountains understands the positive impact nature has on our mental wellbeing. It understands the need to protect it too. Not only is all food plant-based – with a much lower carbon footprint than non-vegan alternatives - but our vacation partner also works to sustainably manage the forest in which the retreat is based. They continue to plant thousands of trees and shrubs to encourage bees, insects and birds to make a home here, have cleared low level bush vegetation to allow large trees to thrive – which also protects the forest and nearby village from flooding and forest fires – and make and spread their own rich compost to increase soil fertility. The result? A steady increase in native biodiversity in an otherwise mono-cultural forest environment.Our trip: Yoga vacation, Portugal

New Year Northern Lights Vacation, Sweden
What better way to see the Northern Lights than at the hands of the Sami, whose folklore and innate winter knowledge bring the lights and landscape to life. You’ll also hear how Lapland’s forests, mountains and rivers are under constant threat from mining exploration, logging and dam construction. By choosing this vacation you are directly providing employment – as accommodation owners, nature guides and restaurateurs - for local communities in a way that supports the preservation of the forests in their natural state.Our trip: New year northern lights vacation, Sweden
Tanzania Indian Ocean Beach Break
A stay on the white sand beaches of Chole Mjini Island – part of the Mafia Archipelago - directly supports the Mafia Island Whale Shark Conservation Society, founded by the owners of your lodge who also serve on the advisory committee of the Mafia Island Marine Park (the largest in East Africa). Chole’s mangroves, whale sharks and fragile fringing coral reefs are all protected, in large part thanks to revenues generated by tourists staying on the island, paying a nightly tax and through day visit tickets. All you have to do is kick back and relax on some of the most beautiful stretches of coastline in the world.Our trip: Tanzania Selous safari vacation & Zanzibar