Eco-resorts

We develop self-help eco-projects, which promote wildlife conservation. We also educate both our consumers and our partner camps with two free ezines. In our office, we use solar power and wind power, store our rainwater, employ and train local staff, reduce paper and plastic consumption and have left the natural vegetation unscathed, resulting in duiker and monitor lizards visiting the office! We donate 10% of all post-tax profits to fund community and/or conservation projects. Community projects are operated with the local villagers as the operators and managers; Eco-resorts provides advice and guidance when requested, but abides by local beliefs and traditions. Our current projects include: • The Children of the Rising Sun Orphanage, which provides accommodation, meals, medicine and schooling for 28 street-children. Our goal is to have a vocational job-training center operational at the home, for the kids and local villagers. • The Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Reserve, which is the last remaining tract of coastal lowland forest in Kenya, providing the only refuge for several endemic birds and mammals, such as the golden-rumped elephant shrew and the Sokoke Pippet. Designated as one of Conservation International's 26 global bio-diversity hotspots (www.conservation.org) and surrounded on all sides by an ever increasing human population, the Forest is in danger of disappearing as trees are cut for carvings, land cleared for subsistence farming and animals trapped for food. Eco-resorts wants the local villagers to become the greatest supporters of the Forest. One of the many projects in the Forest trains the local villagers to breed forest butterfly species for export to the live butterfly market. With two local butterfly farms already in operation, over 400 people in the area bordering the Forest now have an income that relies upon the continued health of the Forest. Our goal is to employ another 100 people. Finally, the Kenyan Eco-resorts office is located within the boundaries of the Watamu National Marine Park; an Eco-resorts director is an Honorary Game Park Warden. The company provides extensive assistance to the warden and rangers within this United Nations protected Biosphere. Please contact [email protected] for more detailed information on our community and wildlife conservation projects that your eco-adventure safari will support. Help us make a difference!