SUSTAINABILITY

What your booking actually funds

We'd rather this page under-claim than over-promise. Here's exactly what we commit to, who we work with, what we ask of guests, and where the money goes — without the language doing more work than the substance behind it.

Our eco-tourism commitments

We cap the number of vehicles attached to any single booking, and we won't route a sighting that requires a guide to push closer than forest-department distance guidelines allow. Every lodge and homestay we partner with is visited and re-inspected by our own team, not just taken on a supplier's word — sustainability claims that can't be checked aren't ones we repeat to guests.

We hold TOFT (Travel Operators for Tigers) certification and are registered with the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department. Where a reserve enforces single-use plastic restrictions, we go further and supply reusable bottles as standard, not just when asked.

Conservation partnerships

We work alongside organisations already doing the unglamorous, ongoing work of keeping these forests intact — camera-trap monitoring, anti-poaching patrol funding, and buffer-zone livelihood programs that give local communities a direct stake in conservation outcomes, not just a spectator's role in them.

  • WWF-India
    Buffer Zone Livelihoods Program
  • Wildlife Conservation Trust
    Camera-trap data sharing
  • MP Tiger Foundation
    Anti-poaching patrol fund
  • Gram Panchayat Eco-Committees
    Kanha & Pench buffer villages

Responsible safari guidelines for guests

None of this is unusual or difficult — it's the same restraint any thoughtful visitor to a wild place would bring on their own. We ask every guest to hold to it, and our naturalists are instructed to say so plainly if a guideline is being tested.

  • Stay in the vehicle inside the core zone, except at designated points
  • Keep voices low — sound travels further than most guests expect, and disturbs more than sightings
  • No flash photography, and no drones without forest-department permission
  • Never ask a naturalist to leave the marked track for a better view
  • Carry out everything you carry in — plastic bottles included
  • Buy from local, community-run vendors where the itinerary offers the choice
  • Ask before photographing people you meet in buffer-zone villages

Community & local livelihood impact

Every naturalist on our team lives in a buffer-zone community — guiding isn't outsourced to people passing through. Lodging, transport and guiding fees are routed to community-owned businesses first, ahead of larger operators, wherever an itinerary gives us that choice. A share of every booking goes directly to forest-department-recognised eco-development committees in the villages we work closest with, funding specific, visible projects — school supplies, water infrastructure, and support roles tied to anti-poaching patrols.

This isn't framed as charity. Poaching and human-wildlife conflict both decline when local communities have a real economic stake in the forest staying intact — it's a conservation mechanism as much as a community one, and we'd make the same case even if it weren't also the right thing to do.

24 resident naturalists · 12 reserves · buffer-zone livelihood contributions on every booking