Nat Hab's conservation philanthropy includes not only WWF but support for local grassroots efforts worldwide.
Conservation travel has transformative power. It benefits communities, safeguards wildlife and preserves cultural heritage. In addition to our conservation travel partnership with World Wildlife Fund established in 2003, Natural Habitat Adventures also supports various philanthropic initiatives in the destinations we visit. Our commitment to conservation and sustainable development inspires our leadership role in boosting grassroots efforts in places our guests have come to know and love. We actively pursue innovative efforts to protect the environment and promote the welfare of local communities.
If you are in charge of a sustainability project that aligns with our values in places we operate, or if you wish to learn more about our existing projects, please email us or call Court Whelan, Nat Hab's Chief Sustainability Officer, at 800-543-8917.
If you are in charge of a sustainability project that aligns with our values in places we operate, or if you wish to learn more about our existing projects, please email us or call Court Whelan, Nat Hab's Chief Sustainability Officer, at 800-543-8917.
Current Nat Hab Philanthropy Projects
Galapagos Library
Galapagos Library
The Library for Galapagos (Biblioteca para Galapagos) proudly stands as the sole communal library within the Galapagos Islands and serves as a vibrant community space.
Fundacion Cerro Guido
Fundacion Cerro Guido
This Chilean-based nonprofit organization aims to help wildlife and livestock coexist by minimizing conflict between pumas and domestic animals.
Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife
Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife
Australia’s Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife supports ecological recovery efforts following devastating wildfires in 2020 through intensive monitoring and using the data to drive strategy.
Wildlife Madagascar
Wildlife Madagascar
Funding helped Wildlife Madagascar to support law enforcement and biological monitoring in Madagascar's remote Anjanaharibe-Sud Special Reserve (ASSR).
FortWhyte Alive — Arctic Science Day
FortWhyte Alive — Arctic Science Day
FortWhyte Alive is a Winnipeg-based educational nonprofit that teaches school children about nature, sustainability and science.
MonteMar Coffee & Conservation
MonteMar Coffee & Conservation
On Santa Cruz Island, MonteMar's conservation coffee supports ecosystem rehabilitation for Galapagos tortoises that graze on their biodynamic farm, which Nat Hab travelers visit before receiving organic coffee we purchase for each traveler to take home.
Oncafari Jaguar Program
Oncafari Jaguar Program
Having supported Oncafari’s past rewilding and reintroduction of jaguars in Caiman Ecological Refuge, Nat Hab support continues toward research and understanding of ecotourism’s effects on jaguar populations, along with assistance for orphaned jaguar reintroductions.
Laguna San Ignacio Ecosystem Science Program
Laguna San Ignacio Ecosystem Science Program
Nat Hab donates directly to Laguna San Ignacio Ecosystem Science Program in Baja, Mexico for each of our travelers, and this year we're also helping send project scientists to present their research papers on gray whales experiencing an Unusual Mortality Event.
SEE Turtles
SEE Turtles
SEE Turtles runs several programs focused on making the travel industry more friendly for sea turtles and Nat Hab is happy to help them make the seas a safer place! By becoming one of SEE Turtles’ first Gold Sponsors of their Sustainable Travel Sponsorship program, Nat Hab supports efforts to reduce plastic waste in sea turtle habitats around the world.
Friends of Serengeti
Friends of Serengeti
Friends of Serengeti is a nonprofit organization that partners with sustainable tourism companies to preserve the Serengeti ecosystem and benefit the people who live within and around its protected areas. Nat Hab’s financial contributions strengthen community conservation initiatives.
Bike Town Africa
Bike Town Africa
Bike Town Africa began with providing transportation for rural health care workers in sub-Saharan Africa, then schools where students must walk up to two hours each way, and Nat Hab continues to donate bikes for students each year, a game changer for education.
Greenland Greenhouse Project
Greenland Greenhouse Project
Traditional growing seasons are almost non-existent in Greenland, but thanks to the inspiring efforts of Siu-Tsi’s Tasiilaq’s garden project, crops like spinach, onions, turnips and radishes abound in this small, remote village in East Greenland.
CITW Literacy Program
CITW Literacy Program
In July 2023, Nat Hab Philanthropy worked with Children in the Wilderness (CITW) to help fund literacy centers in communities throughout Zimbabwe and Zambia. These centers promote the importance of and work effectively for the remediation and improvement of the English language and literacy skills for all ages.
Protecting Croatia's Griffons
Protecting Croatia's Griffons
Grifon – Birds of Prey Protection Society has the long-term goal of preserving the last Croatian population of griffon vultures and creating conditions for their return to their former habitats and colonies, including Croatia’s Kvarner islands.
Ele Express Bus
Ele Express Bus
The Ele Express Bus project provides safe bus transport through elephant corridors of Botswana's Okavango Delta. By minimizing potential run-ins with people, animals are safer, too, creating a more harmonious balance between people and nature.
Tree Seed Collection Project
Tree Seed Collection Project
In July 2023, Nat Hab Philanthropy began working with The Tree Seed Collection Project in collaboration with Woodland Trust Scotland and Trees for Life to enhance the availability of native trees from western Scotland.
Bwindi School Chicken Coop
Bwindi School Chicken Coop
A multi-time recipient of Nat Hab Philanthropy funding, Bwindi Plus Nursery and Primary School continues to provide a vital service to their community by way of educating the next generation. Our 2023 grant was used to construct a chicken coop and purchase egg-laying hens, along with other supplies.
Champions for Wildlife
Champions for Wildlife
Champions for Wildlife understands this well and seeks to inspire and empower youth in the United States to be champions for wildlife through art projects and education programs.
Gyekrumalambo Primary School
Gyekrumalambo Primary School
The Gyekrumalambo Primary School in Karatu emerged as a school in need of support, and as the school’s primary benefactor, Nat Hab Philanthropy funded their first water tank for clean drinking. The recent project funded is the completion of a school kitchen.
Past Nat Hab Philanthropy Projects
Jackson Hole Bear Solutions
Jackson Hole Bear Solutions
Jackson Hole Bear Solutions, a program run by the non-profit Wyoming Wildlife Advocates, secures garbage bins, removes attractants and provides installation assistance for electric fencing to secure compost piles, apiaries and chicken coops.
Yellowstone Forever Wolf Project
Yellowstone Forever Wolf Project
Wolf research and monitoring in and around Yellowstone National Park is critical to the long-term health of wild wolves, and we continue to fund the annual collaring of a wolf for a year of scientific study.
Wildcat Conservation & Breeding Program: Aigas Field Center
Wildcat Conservation & Breeding Program: Aigas Field Center
Aigas Field Center in Scotland is contributing to an important national program with wildlife parks and the Royal Zoological Society to bring the Scottish wildcat back from the edge of extinction.
Wild Macaw Project
Wild Macaw Project
Following a successful reintroduction of scarlet macaws, Costa Rica’s Wild Macaw Association is conducting ecological research, habitat protection and community development in the birds' native habitat.
Arctic Fox Center
Arctic Fox Center
The center features a large exhibit that offers insights into ongoing local research and educates visitors about the life and history of Arctic foxes—Iceland’s sole native land mammal.
Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership
Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership
The Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership is a Malagasy NGO that is currently working with local guides and students to study the elusive aye-aye, Madagascar's least understood and rarest lemur.
Oncafari Jaguar Research
Oncafari Jaguar Research
Oncafari is a conservation and research organization that focuses on jaguars in Brazil’s Pantanal to understand and illuminate how jaguars interact with one another and their environment.
Kyaninga Child Development Center
Kyaninga Child Development Center
In response to a dearth of special needs education in Uganda, this nonprofit created solutions, and Nat Hab continues its financial support for two more training sessions, parental awareness workshops and adaptive scholastic materials. Kyaninga provides specialist rehabilitation for children with disabilities, including comprehensive physiotherapy, occupational and speech therapy, and inclusive education services.
Great Bear Rainforest Conservation
Great Bear Rainforest Conservation
Nat Hab funding helps Raincoast Conservation Foundation purchase and permanently protect the world’s largest intact coastal temperate rain forest that's home to grizzly bears and other wildlife.
Bwindi School Farming Project
Bwindi School Farming Project
In Uganda, children living near Bwindi National Park now get better-quality education, now including the benefits of farming and agriculture through on-site practice and experiences, and Nat Hab is helping purchase farming and agriculture supplies, including several goats.
Asian Leopard Conservation
Asian Leopard Conservation
The Leopard Trust, a Colombo-based nongovernmental organization, has begun a four-year study of Sri Lanka's leopards—the country's first scientific leopard survey in Yala National Park.
Punta Banco Sea Turtle Nesting Project
Punta Banco Sea Turtle Nesting Project
Community-wide efforts have helped save and relocate hundreds of turtle nests in Costa Rica, and we’ve adopted 50 nests in support of this sustainable turtle protection program on the Pacific coast.
Charles Darwin Foundation
Charles Darwin Foundation
For conservation projects to succeed, decision makers need to be armed with sound scientific research, and Nat Hab proudly supports this organization's solid science-based conservation in the Galapagos.
Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center
Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center
Nat Hab has adopted Wawa, an endangered sun bear that lives at a rehabilitation center we visit in Borneo, covering a full year of her care in hope that she will eventually be released back into the wild.
Cheetah Conservation Fund
Cheetah Conservation Fund
Funding goes to purchasing two GPS collars that provide valuable research data on cheetah movements and patterns, and ultimately serve to alleviate human-wildlife conflict in Namibia.
Little Finches School House
Little Finches School House
This small preschool in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island is a shining example of grassroots education, offering reading groups, yoga classes, textile and art classes, and field trips within the local community.
Women in Conservation: Beehive Elephant Fencing in Tanzania
Women in Conservation: Beehive Elephant Fencing in Tanzania
Women in Conservation educates and inspires Tanzanian women to build careers in conservation. By identifying obstacles, the organization determines the most viable and sustainable solutions.
Churchill Northern Studies Center: Rocket Greens
Churchill Northern Studies Center: Rocket Greens
The Churchill Northern Studies Center is an independent, nonprofit research and education facility. In November 2017 a cutting-edge Growcer hydroponic growing system was installed at the center.
Orangutan Outreach: Adoption
Orangutan Outreach: Adoption
Nat Hab has adopted 16 orangutans at four different Orangutan Outreach rehabilitation centers for one year, helping provide care for orphaned and displaced orangutans until they can be returned to their natural environment.
Orangutan Outreach Fire Fund
Orangutan Outreach Fire Fund
Orangutan Outreach protects orangutans in their native Borneo habitat, and Nat Hab is supporting their acquisition of firefighting equipment and reforestation efforts to replace native tropical hardwood trees in burned areas.
Monarch Mural Restoration
Monarch Mural Restoration
A colorful mural depicting a timeline of local history at the center of Angangueo, the center of monarch butterfly ecotourism in Mexico, received a full-scale restoration by local artists.
Lyons MicroPlastics
Lyons MicroPlastics
Colorado students are learning about pervasive plastics and the direct connection between their local river and the ocean as Nat Hab supports their monitoring equipment acquisition and online citizen science database management.
The Language of Bears: Safety & Tolerance Through Understanding
The Language of Bears: Safety & Tolerance Through Understanding
With a rise in human-bear conflicts, Nat Hab is helping purchase field equipment for the second round of a multi-year study for better
scientific understanding of how bears handle social interactions
Ride 4 a Woman
Ride 4 a Woman
Uganda’s Buhoma village women started a successful bike rental business outside Bwindi National Park that is seeding other women-owned entrepreneurial efforts, adding a need for two new sewing machines.
Hope for Madagascar
Hope for Madagascar
Aiding a nonprofit that's reducing poverty through education and conservation, Nat Hab is helping facilitate a school restoration project that will relocate a bat colony, preserve an essential school building, and educate the community about biodiversity.
Save the Simiens
Save the Simiens
In Ethiopia's Simien Mountains National Park, Nat Hab is helping pay monthly wages for local workers who live in remote villages inside the park, a key to sustaining communities, wildlife and landscapes alike.
Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership
Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership
The elusive aye-aye lemur, one of Madagascar’s rarest and least understood animals, is the focus of more intense scientific study in order to better understand how to save it from extinction.
Mbuga School Shelter
Mbuga School Shelter
Ndali Lodge, an eco-conscious property where Nat Hab stays during our Uganda gorilla safaris, is building a secondary school building for the community, adding much-needed classrooms for local kids.
Flush Toilets at Bwindi School
Flush Toilets at Bwindi School
Helping raise the bar for students from kindergarten through college who live near Uganda’s endangered mountain gorillas, Nat Hab is improving infrastructure at a local school, including six new flush toilets.
FortWhyte Alive — Arctic Science Day
FortWhyte Alive — Arctic Science Day
FortWhyte Alive is a Winnipeg-based educational nonprofit that teaches school children about nature, sustainability and science.
RABEN Whale Disentanglement
RABEN Whale Disentanglement
The Mexican Big Whale Disentanglement Network (RABEN) has attended to more than 120 entanglement reports, freeing whales so they can lead healthy normal lives, free from deadly fishing lines.
Danadais
Danadais
For each Nat Hab traveler who experiences the monarch butterfly migration in Mexico's protected Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Nat Hab donates $5 to WWF Mexico to help support local conservation initiatives.
Comupuba Women’s Co-Op
Comupuba Women’s Co-Op
Compuba is a women's commission from Punta Banco, a small coastal town in Costa Rica. Focusing on agriculture and tourism, Compuba's mission is to make natural products with fruits and herbs from local gardens.
Churchill Anglican Church Restoration
Churchill Anglican Church Restoration
In this small northern community where polar bears prowl the shore of Hudson Bay, an i mportant building used for community and visitor programs is receiving some much-needed upgrades.
Darwin Animal Doctors
Darwin Animal Doctors
In the process of improving the lives of pets in the Galapagos Islands, vets are protecting the islands' native wildlife through free veterinary care, including crucial parvo and distemper vaccinations for local dogs.
Ecology Project International
Ecology Project International
Local scientists and educators in the Galapagos are giving conservation a grassroots boost by increasing science literacy in youth through experiential immersion and hands-on research.
Floreana Biodiversity Heritage Community Campaign
Floreana Biodiversity Heritage Community Campaign
Island Conservation is successfully undertaking an ambitious, multi-phase restoration project that will eradicate invasive species and reestablish native wildlife on the Galapagos island of Floreana.
Garifuna Community School
Garifuna Community School
This school, founded to sustain cultural identity and values among Belize’s Garifuna people, is purchasing new traditional attire and drums to use at local celebrations and performances.
Glacier National Park Climate Film
Glacier National Park Climate Film
A Nat Hab Expedition Leader is making a film about how climate change affects pristine and fragile environments, and Glacier National Park is a prime example of these impacts.
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