Our tour and travel services are an ecotourism undertaking in the manner that part of the proceedings from the services we offer support the work of Organic Perspectives on restoring the tropical rainforests that have defined Uganda's tourism industry for years, and improving the livelihoods of the most vulnerable rural smallholder farmers that imperatively depend on these forests for survival.
At the launch of our work, we will not be able to offer you our own tour or safari packages—expect to natural destinations in Kamuli & Buyende. Our services shall initially be limited to the 2 mentioned below, but , as we work hand in hand with a big number of Safari Companies throughout Uganda, we are essentially able to book you on the best expedition and/or tour package that suits your interests.
EcoTours & Travel Uganda will initially be able to offer you:
1. Our own travel services (including airport transfers) for visitors to any of Uganda’s popular ecotourism destinations. The money we get from the offer of this service is directly used to support Organic Perspectives’ environmental conservation and poverty alleviation activities with rural smallholder farmers in Uganda’s countryside. In particular, we'll aim at using this mechanism to support our "up to 2 million trees per year" target through social forestry.
Please download our travel pricing guide (PDF) here.
2. For both those tourists visiting Uganda and those traveling elsewhere in the world, we offer you the opportunity to (voluntarily) offset your travel-related CO2 emissions through our ‘reforestation project’ in Kamuli and Buyende districts. Learn about Organic Perspectives’ overall programs and projects here.
For carbon offsets, though our tree project is not yet registered with any carbon standard, we will plant 20 trees for every $1 received—protecting fragile ecosystems and improving local people’s livelihoods in one of Uganda’s poorest and heavily deforested remote communities.
Measuring your CO2 footprint:
If you’re only interested in offsetting flight-related emissions, click here for one of the most ideal carbon calculators by “The Climate Neutral Company”.
If you rather need to make a more in-depth evaluation of your household and lifestyle footprint, then the “Nature Conservancy’s” carbon calculator is the one for you.
After you have figured out how much of your footprint needs to be offset, please go right to our reforestation project’s donation page on GlobalGiving to place your commitment. If you also sign up at Organic Perspectives’ homepage for quarterly e-news and updates, you will be sure to follow-up with our project, or otherwise—if you never sign up—you will only continue to receive a quarterly project report via GlobalGiving.
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How many trees will offset your CO2?
According to American Forests, "a tree can absorb as much as 48 pounds of CO2 per year, and can sequester one ton of carbon dioxide by the time it reaches 40 years old".
This means, it takes 40 mature trees to sequester a ton of CO2 in a year; 80 mature trees to sequester 2 tons and so on. But, as this is an assessment applying to mature trees only, you will need to plant a hectare of forest (1,000 trees costing $50) to remove a ton of CO2 in the near-term, per year (as in this relative assessment by the UK Forestry Commission).
Organic Perspectives plants a wide range of multipurpose and fast-growing leguminous trees that help rural smallholder farmers to restore their degraded soils through nitrogen-fixation. In this, local livelihoods are supported through improved agricultural production (increasing food security), sustainable land use and the creation of an income source.
Most of our tree species are palatable, nitrogen-rich animal fodder—e.g. Calliandra, Leucaena, Gliricidia and Sesbania. With many smallholder farmers now confined in small, fragmented pieces of land, the trees help them to adopt better livestock management systems, e.g. zero grazing, as well as various agroforestry technologies (e.g. alley cropping and windbreaks) for sustainable land use systems.
To see our tree project's organizational arrangement—who plants the trees; where and how we do this, and how we engage the community, please see this page on our website.
There is also a collection of videos from the project on our YouTube Channel here.
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