Impact Destinations

As an example of Impact Destinations’ bespoke experience, on a trip to Indonesia, guests can fund the rescue of an orangutan family, and witness their release on a protected island. Orangutans are facing habitat loss due to their tropical forest homes being chopped down to plant monocrop oil palm trees for palm oil production. Palm oil production is now one of the leading causes of rainforest destruction, and its production is the biggest threat driving the iconic wildlife species, the Critically Endangered Sumatran orangutan, to the brink of extinction in Indonesia.

This experience is regenerative in that by funding the rescue of an orangutan family, and witnessing their release in a protected reserve, not only is the orangutan family saved and free to propagate the species with other orangutans in the reserve, helping edge them away from the Critically Endangered list, clients are also regenerated. They learn firsthand about the problems of palm oil production, which extend beyond habitat loss into air, soil and water pollution, soil erosion, climate change and human rights violations.