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Conservation
The most effective wildlife protection is economic: when a local community earns more from wildlife than from poaching it, wildlife survives. This is the principle behind everything we do.
Every member of our staff is from the local community. Every meal uses local ingredients. Every guide is a local person trained and paid at a fair wage. This economic flow into the community creates direct stakeholders in the health of the national park.
When community members earn stable, dignified incomes from conservation tourism, the incentive to poach — which was historically driven by poverty and lack of alternatives — is reduced substantially. Nepal's rhino and tiger recovery validates this approach.
We also support community anti-poaching awareness efforts and work with park rangers through formal and informal channels to improve wildlife intelligence in the Meghauli sector.