🌿🏴 Scotland's Rewilding Revolution: Embracing Nature's Return 🦊🦌
🌍 Rewilding is the restoration of ecosystems to their natural state, allowing wildlife and flora to thrive. Scotland, with its breathtaking landscapes and diverse wildlife, has become a leading champion of this transformative approach. While the team are currently on a company retreat in the Scottish Highlands, we wanted to shine a light on why it matters:
1️⃣ Biodiversity Boost: Rewilding enhances biodiversity by reintroducing native species like red squirrels, beavers, and even apex predators like the majestic European lynx. It helps reestablish the natural balance, creating healthy habitats for a wide range of plants and animals.
2️⃣ Carbon Capture: Scotland's rewilding efforts contribute to combating climate change. Thriving forests and wetlands act as powerful carbon sinks, absorbing and storing significant amounts of CO2. By letting nature take the reins, we're helping mitigate the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
3️⃣ Ecotourism Wonder: Embracing rewilding not only benefits the environment but also creates exciting opportunities for eco-conscious travellers like us! Imagine exploring untouched landscapes, encountering rare wildlife, and supporting local communities that rely on sustainable tourism.
4️⃣ Cultural Heritage: Rewilding connects us to Scotland's rich cultural heritage. By preserving and restoring natural habitats, we're reviving ancient traditions, folklores, and practices that are deeply intertwined with the land. It's a chance to appreciate the past while embracing the future.
🌟 Reach out to one of our Travel Researchers to see how they could create a personalised rewilding itinerary in Scotland just for you!
Thank you to the Scottish Rewilding Alliance for letting us share their video.
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🌳🦍 We feel honoured to be able to partner with brands like Volcanoes Safaris, who are doing so much for the community, conservation and environment surrounding their properties. The brands non-profit, Volcanoes Safaris Partnership Trust (VSPT), established in 2009, has been able to acquire more land to protect endangered ecosystems and create a buffer zone between the community and wildlife, built cafes, community centres and more to improve the local community infrastructure and create income opportunities and so much more. Going forward VSPT will be deepening their partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute Uganda to see how they can further resolve wildlife-human conflicts.
We love being able to support projects such as these which are funded not only through private donations but also by those who choose to stay at Volcanoes Safaris properties - a $50 donation per person per night is taken from every bed night fee to go towards Volcanoes Safaris Partnership Trust and its ongoing projects. Reach out to one of our Travel Researchers to see how you can incorporate Volcanoes Safaris into your next great holiday and contribute to this incredible project. 🦍🌳
📸: Thank you @volcanoes_safaris for letting us share this fabulous video
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American clients - we look forward to booking your next adventures! We are thinking about what we are thankful for this season, and we are loving the comeback the travel industry has seen this past year - how about you, what are you thankful for? 🤲
In addition to a herd, did you know that a group of zebras can be called a razzle?! A brilliant fact we learnt from our Sales and Marketing Director, Jess, while on her South African travels.
It's the end of another weekend and the end of another month, and so we're making like this dung beetle and rolling through the week into November, dreaming about our next big adventures.
What gets you rolling through the week, comment below!
@emily cadzow one of our lovely Travel Researchers, has just gotten back from an incredible trip to Latin America. One of her first stops was the mind-blowing Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil. Visiting the waterfalls helps protect 252,982 hectares of National Parks.
#iguazufalls #sustainabletravel #awasiiguazu
Happy Friday!
Meet the team here at Niarra Travel – both the Travel Researchers you’ll talk to and those behind the scenes. I think you will agree we are much happier exploring the world and curating unforgettable trips that help make the world a better place – than we are on camera! 📽️😂
Today is World Chimpanzee Day!
100 years ago, there were an estimated 1-2 million chimpanzees across 25 countries in Africa. Today, there are as few as 350,000 left in the wild.
We must each do our part to turn those numbers around, by ending habitat loss, illegal pet and bush meat trades, and all of the other threats facing our closest living relatives.
One of our favourite places to support chimp conservation is in Tanzania’s Mahale National Park, where you can trek with precious, endangered chimps like this little guy
For more information visit https://www.niarratravel.com/example-itinerary/unseen-tanzania/
At Niarra we love nothing more than crafting trips that you won’t find in any travel brochure.
Our “superpower” is creating epic, bespoke adventures for travellers rather than tourists. Trips that also leave a tangible, positive impact on the people, places, and planet encountered along the way 🌍
Enjoy a scroll through some of our favourite, far-flung “hidden gems” - where guests take nothing but photos - and leave only footprints 👣
This fascinating animal is known as a burrowing owl.
Unlike most of its counterparts, the tiny burrowing owl generally hunts in the day and lives underground.
Due to living underground, the owls are more vulnerable to predators so they've developed a call to scare them away: a hissing noise, similar to that of a rattlesnake.
Oh, and they're incredibly cute!
The world is waiting for us to travel again. Are you ready? #travelisawakening
