Our Work
We make use of tourism to create our projects located in highland Andean villages, to make a new social impact as well as to teach those villages about an environmental protection.
Our country is facing a wide spread of threats starting from climate changes, natural resources consumption to extreme poverty. Tourism and travelling might be involved in producing these issues. It might include a rare ecosystem misuse and degradation, cultural tradition disappearance as well as financial losses.
However, the Peru’s biggest and most varied industry – tourism, may represent an effective tool to solve the issues in the same time. In planning and responsible management, tourism may be a means for sustainable development for numerous Peruvian cities and villages in order to face such threats.
The foundation of Responsible People cooperates with local authorities, villages, organizations and companies in order to produce a better onward way for some of the most vulnerable locations. The foundation works on a more sustainable future, characterized by protected natural reserves and parks, fair trades, culture conservation and involvement of travelers who desire to create the world a better place by means of choosing a destination and a way of how they travel.
Environmental Conservation
The Amazon Rainforest is considered the “Lungs of the World” and it covers Peru of 70%. Moreover, the country can pride in a big number of climates and microclimates. These represent Andean mountain range, the Amazon, deserts, semi-deserts, savannahs, seaside, etc. All these give homes to millions of plants and animals as well as humans, who are quite depend on the land too. When it comes to the air, which we breathe, or the food that the Mother Earth gives us.
These vital habitats are endangered by destruction every now and then. Particularly, the Amazon is threaten by huge deforestation due to logging, exploitation and farming. In this way, biodiversity is disappearing in an alarming pace!
As tourism has a tendency to prosper in places with rich biodiversity, it also has a unique potential to speed up environmental responsibility and support preservation efforts in those vulnerable destinations. However, if environmental protection is not promoted on the first place, tourism may pose a further risk to land and forests, especially the Amazon Rainforest.
Waste & Water
The natural sources of the Mother Earth are very precious and we all depend on them. Despite that, people/company owners keep overusing them. Moreover, we, people produce an excessive waste, pollution and water deficiency. Production of waste and pollution are big issues especially in developing destinations that are lacking a proper sanitation infrastructure and waste management often. Insufficient waste disposal results not only in a less enjoyable experience of such a destination, but also in a harmful impact on environment as well as human and animal health. Sources of water are highly susceptible to pollution and its overconsumption causes its shortage.
Tourist industry has got the potential to create awareness of these issues and to speed-up a sustainable development in predisposed destinations. However, an unplanned tourism and undue consumption can lead to water issues and waste accumulation too.