In 2015 Yemen’s civil war severed this remote Arabian island’s air link to the outside world. However, with the easing of tensions, flights have quietly resumed, opening up this ecological eden to visitors once again.
Isolation has defined Socotra’s development from prehuman times till today.
Here’s your chance to reengage this bizarre, fascinating island.
Northern Sumatra is home to some of the last remaining wild orangutans in the world. Their habitat is under constant threat from monoculture farming and logging. Tourism may be the one thing that can save them.
How can sustainable tourism help save Indonesia’s last remaining primary rainforests?
Jhon has been living on the edge of Gunung Leuser National park in Aceh, Sumatra for his entire life. His people, the Alas, have inhabited this forest peacefully for centuries with the wildlife. As a trekking guide for nearly twenty years, Jhon has been leading an effort to save his homeland from loggers and those who seek to destroy the jungle. This is his story.
In the 1960s, Afghanistan was a popular stop over for 100,000 tourists a year on the hippy trail from Europe to India. Yet decades of war, terrorism, invasions, and insecurity have left the country in ruins. However, with recent security improvements, is the country ready for tourists again?
How to reengage a nation at the cross roads of cultures, trade routes, drug trafficking, religious extremism, and power politics.
Hunted to the brink of extinction over the last century and a half, whales are now making a steady recovery in all of the world’s oceans. Join us as we explore the world of humpback whales in the South Pacific.
Every year humpback whales from Antarctica migrate to the warm, shallow waters of the South Pacific to raise their calfs. Experience their world firsthand.
Our 2017 short doc on the work of Karim Iliya documenting humpback whales off the coast of Vava’u, Tonga.