Experiences

Conservation experiences

Wilderness combines unforgettable wildlife encounters with positive impact experiences.

Wilderness Impact

Our purpose

Together with our guests and partners, we help protect 2.2 million hectares (5.4 million acres) of land, channelling our conservation and hospitality business as a force for lasting, positive impact.

Since 1983, our purpose remains the same: to protect, explore and expand the world’s wilderness.

Pioneers of purpose

Explore our impact strategy

The story of our business is one best told in two halves: conservation and hospitality. The bigger we grow our hospitality offering, the bigger our conservation impact can be. And as we boldly aim to double the amount of land we help protect, each initiative we support plays a critical role in helping us achieve this vision.

Wilderness impact

How we contribute

How you contribute

Children in the Wilderness

The Wilderness Trust

How we contribute

Leasing specific tracts of land from governments and communities is one of the most direct and meaningful contributions Wilderness makes to the regions in which we operate, with payments helping to fund wildlife conservation and community upliftment.

Wilderness Little Makalolo Zimbabwe Purpose Impact

How you contribute

Your decision to travel with us enables Wilderness to fully fund the delivery of our Impact strategy, by covering 100% of the Wilderness Trust’s overheads, including the CITW programme. This support makes it possible to permanently employ more than 30 Impact team members across 8 countries and to cover all the operational and logistical costs required to run our Impact programmes effectively.

Children in the Wilderness

Twenty-five years ago we founded Children in the Wilderness (CITW), a programme offering environmental education, leadership development and life skills training, to children from remote villages neighbouring our areas of operation. To date, CITW has enriched the lives of thousands of children in 10 countries, inspiring the next generation of environmentalists.

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The Wilderness Trust

The Wilderness Trust is an independent entity created to extend our reach and capacity to support deserving conservation initiatives. This partnership has driven projects in wildlife research, conservation education, human-wildlife coexistence, and anti-poaching. The Trust also supports students and schools via grants and bursaries, with our CITW programme as one of its beneficiaries.

Explore the Wilderness Trust

How we contribute

Leasing specific tracts of land from governments and communities is one of the most direct and meaningful contributions Wilderness makes to the regions in which we operate, with payments helping to fund wildlife conservation and community upliftment.

How you contribute

Your decision to travel with us enables Wilderness to fully fund the delivery of our Impact strategy, by covering 100% of the Wilderness Trust’s overheads, including the CITW programme. This support makes it possible to permanently employ more than 30 Impact team members across 8 countries and to cover all the operational and logistical costs required to run our Impact programmes effectively.

Children in the Wilderness

Twenty-five years ago we founded Children in the Wilderness (CITW), a programme offering environmental education, leadership development and life skills training, to children from remote villages neighbouring our areas of operation. To date, CITW has enriched the lives of thousands of children in 10 countries, inspiring the next generation of environmentalists.

Explore Children in The Wilderness

The Wilderness Trust

The Wilderness Trust is an independent entity created to extend our reach and capacity to support deserving conservation initiatives. This partnership has driven projects in wildlife research, conservation education, human-wildlife coexistence, and anti-poaching. The Trust also supports students and schools via grants and bursaries, with our CITW programme as one of its beneficiaries.

Explore the Wilderness Trust

Projects & initiatives

With the help of our partners, we support and drive countless conservation and community initiatives across Africa.

Wildlife monitoring

Wherever possible, we support projects that encourage protection of wildlife from people, and people from wildlife.

Read about our Impact Challenge

Habitat restoration

Across our areas, we seek to rehabilitate degraded land and safeguard critical wildlife corridors.

Read about our reforestation projects

Growing the conservation economy

We work with local community co-operatives in all of the countries of our operation to empower individuals and grow the conservation economy.

Read about Indego Africa

Elevated walkways at Wilderness Chitabe allow wildlife to wonder undisturbed

Environmental consideration

We plan, construct, operate and decommission camps in the most sustainable way possible.

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Guests trekking free-roaming black rhino at Wilderness Desert Rhino Camp in Namibia

CULTURE & IMPACT

Meaningful travel experiences with Wilderness

Enriching encounters.

Be part of our conservation initiatives as you track Critically Endangered desert-adapted black rhino on foot, led by a seasoned guide in Namibia. Plant an indigenous tree in Zambia or Rwanda, and help reforest formerly denuded areas. Every experience is an opportunity to learn, and make an impact on the wilderness.

Wilderness Experiences Conservation Nature Walk

CONSERVATION EXPERIENCES

Wilderness Experiences Conservation Endangered Species

Wilderness Experiences Conservation Reforestation

Helping protect the wild through conservation travel

You’ll feel it when you marvel at the miles of open space and teeming wildlife. And understand why at Wilderness, we’re determined to help protect it. Every guest plays a vital role in our conservation efforts and has the opportunity to get involved. From indigenous tree-planting in Rwanda to tracking rhinos at Desert Rhino Camp in Namibia, to assisting communities with human-wildlife conflict mitigation.

Conservation in Botswana

TRAVEL WITH US

Journey with Wilderness

We’re proud to help conserve 22,000 km² of African wilderness in the continent's most fragile and sensitive ecosystems. A responsibility we do not take lightly. Each camp is built to leave minimal impact on its environment, using renewable energy, recyclable material and adopting an Earth-to-plate concept. Everything we do has one focus: to conserve the wilderness while inspiring others.

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JOURNAL

Featured stories

Jane Goodall famously said you cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. A sentiment we live by, and one we hope to share with you in our collection of inspirational stories from across our Wilderness camps.

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