How traveling with AEI is better for the environment than a regular vacation.
You have a carbon footprint, we all do. However, travel doesn’t have to make your footprint inordinately huge. By making some good travel decisions, you can live your travel dreams while still considering your environmental impact.
Animal Experience International offers low impact travel!
We plant trees!
AEI plants a tree for every single traveler. We also buy carbon offsets, making sure everyone's in-country travel is carbon balanced. We think about the environment where the animals we help live - many AEI programs include habitat restoration and preservation. When you volunteer with AEI you not only help the animals in front of you, you are helping animals in forests around the world!
We take care of your in country travel and your accomodation.
Often this has you staying on site meaning your commute to work is a short walk down the path! We have local supporters pick you up from the airport and encourage everyone to carpool when they can. This is also a great way to meet other volunteers on the way to the centre! We make sure conservation money stays in the hands of those who support our centres, helping local communities and aiding the animals you are so excited to visit. Our partners get full autonomy over the donations we send them. Creating long term and trusted partnerships for conservation means long term and trusted partnerships with leaders in the community.
Veggie meals 4 eva.
All of our programs offer vegetarian and vegan meals. In fact many of our programs operate with full vegetarian or vegan staff! Changing how you eat is one of the quickest ways to cut down on your climate footprint, so we make sure this is considered when we plan our trips and make our partnerships.
Our programs help wildlife and domestic animals!
What better way to make a positive impact on our planet than by helping conserve wildlife and increasing the welfare of domestic animals? Every single program at AEI has the highest conservation and welfare standards possible - as determined by our Co-Founder and veterinarian, Dr. Heather Reid! If you are going to travel, why not make sure it’s for the best possible and most worthy cause? A toucan in Guatemala, a dog in Nepal, a horse in Spain or a serval in Malawi!
