Wildlife Heritage Areas

Exodus Adventure Travels is a proud supporter of Wildlife Heritage Areas, a new global benchmark from World Animal Protection and the World Cetacean Alliance to identify tourism destinations meeting high standards of animal welfare, wildlife conservation, community well-being, and sustainability. The Wildlife Heritage Area programme connects responsible travel companies like Exodus with wildlife experts and local communities as a network to designate wildlife-friendly and community-based tourism destinations to deliver better outcomes for wild animals and the people that live in surrounding areas.

By rewarding local communities for their role in protecting habitats and responsible wildlife watching, these Wildlife Heritage Areas will generate pride and income for communities while reversing biodiversity loss and facilitating climate resilience in order to help solve some of the planet’s most urgent issues.

Wildlife Heritage Area goals

Empower local people and communities to care for and protect the unique wildlife in their environment.

Provide an opportunity for the travel industry to promote more responsible wildlife experiences as an alternative to exploitative, extractive, or consumptive captive or wild animal attractions.

Emphasise our cultural links with nature as a powerful tool to encourage positive change for animals and people.

Incorporate animal welfare as an integral part of what constitutes ‘sustainable practices’ or ‘wildlife friendly’ tourism.

Use an approach combining nature conservation and animal welfare successfully, as part of a growing movement.