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The following websites may be of interest to you before you travel and after you've returned from your holiday.
The Travel Foundation
The Travel Foundation is a UK charity that cares for the places we love to visit, existing to protect and enhance the environment and improve the well-being of destination communities. As well as running sustainable tourism projects in popular holiday destinations worldwide, the Travel Foundation also offers green travel tips and advice to make your holiday greener. Visit www.makeholidaysgreener.org.uk for destination guides, green travel advice, to upload your green holiday snaps and even test your knowledge with their green travel quiz!
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Animal welfare and conservation
 The Born Free Foundation
The Born Free Foundation is an international animal welfare and conservation charity, working through advocacy, scientific research, field projects and education to prevent captive wild animal suffering and protect wildlife in the wild. Working with governments, the tourist industry, scientists and other non-governmental organisations, Born Free generates greater public awareness of the issues surrounding wild animal exploitation and seeks solutions to the problems. To alert a case of wild animal suffering visit www.bornfree.org.uk/campaigns/zoocheck/travellers-animal-alert/about-travellers-alert/
 Friends of Conservation
Friends of Conservation (FOC) is an international charity which has been actively working to protect wildlife and habitats for almost 25 years. FOC work with local communities to develop and promote a balance between their needs and those of the wildlife with which they share their natural habitat. In addition to their own work in Kenya’s Masai Mara, they partner with NGO’s in various locations, including Tanzania, Uganda and Namibia as well as India and the Caribbean.
FOC are involved in the following activities: Wildlife and habitat protection - environmental programmes which provide education, health and community benefits - alternative fuel and energy initiatives - reforestation programmes - anti-poaching and wildlife monitoring campaigns - human/wildlife conflict management - promoting sustainable tourism. For further information visit www.foc-uk.com
Other animal welfare companies:
 International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
IFAW campaign for the protection of cruelty to animals and the preservation of animal habitats. For information on IFAW's Think Twice campaign to protect wildlife from the souvenir trade visit www.ifaw.org/uk/thinktwice
Other useful RT websites:
International Centre for Responsible Tourism - www.icrtourism.org - A post-graduate training and research centre based at the Leeds Metropolitan University that aims specifically at Responsible tourism.
GreenTraveller - www.greentraveller.co.uk - the online forum for green travel set up by freelance journalist Richard Hammond. Richard writes a weekly column in The Guardian and also contributes to travel magazines and trade media on ecotourism and responsible travel
See also our Tips for travellers webpage.
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