TOFTigers Chairman’s comment This is a huge admission from one of the most powerful voices in conservation – that ecotourism is primates’ best hope. Its been my belief for 30 years now and too often tourism has been dismissed, diminished, […]
CONSERVATION IN PERIL AS NATURE TOURISM DISAPPEARS Editors comment It’s been a fantastic ‘wake up’ call for many in the conservation and wildlife arena, who have disparaged and put their noses up at nature tourism and safari goers for decades. […]
Conservation in crisis Finally, this pandemic might galvanise those policymakers and many wildlife NGO’s who failed to recognise that nature based tourism is a powerful conservation tool. We need to make tourism (version 2 post covid) better by working together. […]
A BATTLE PLAN FOR YOUR BUSINESS By Julian Matthews, Chairman, TOFTigers As Winston Churchill once said “Never waste a good crisis” so here is a battle plan to survive in business during – and after – this pandemic crisis. […]
Coronavirus has finally made us recognise that illegal wildlife trade is a public health issue TOFTigers have always campaigned for, and participated in NGO alliances, to close down on markets in wildlife products, alongside ‘Tiger farms’ in China and elsewhere […]
JOIN TOFTIGERS IN DECLARING A CLIMATE EMERGENCY WITH YOUR BUSINESS Join a growing group of world class tour operators and grounds agents from across the globe – and declare your actions for our climate emergency. It’s totally voluntary – and […]
Jan 2020 Hosted by two of Karnataka’s Outstanding PUG rated properties, Dhole’s Den and Evolve Back , Ritu Makhija, Sustainability manager and Head Auditor, Pradeep Dadlani, ran two lodge sustainability workshops titled ‘Driving the change’ in Bandipur and in Kabini […]
What Costas Christ says here is correct. We are as an industry trapped in a horrid dilemma. We cannot stop economies dependent on preserving nature yet we do this by polluting our atmosphere. This is a horrid paradigm to be […]
Ensuring Sustainable Destinations With the global environmental movement gaining traction, with travel and tourism sustainability in the headlights, so TOFTigers focus has been on targeting Tourism Ministries to drive plans and policies that help to incentivise and encourage providers and […]
