• We use environmentally friendly products where possible and encourage any participants in the Project to do so;
• We support a number of local not-for-profit organisations, small businesses and centres of higher education in Tambopata;
• We use our proceeds to fund our own environmental initiatives;
• We endorse the principles of sustainability;
• We aim to treat our volunteers and staff honestly and competently;
• We aim to be carbon neutral;
• We strongly encourage volunteers offset their flight-related carbon emissions;
• We offset carbon emissions generated in Tambopata during the Project;
• We demonstrate and promote good working practise in all our wildlife monitoring and handling activities;
• We demonstrate respect for all wildlife and the environment;
• We minimise the environmental impacts of monitoring methods used;
• We have a strict recycling policy;
• We aim to be a 'paperless' office in the UK;
• We will seek approval to work with local communities where necessary;
• We will respect local cultures;
• We will abide by the strict regulations of the Peruvian National Park Authorities when working in protected areas;
• We use the only bank in the UK which has an ethical policy. The Bank pledges 1.25p for every £1 spent to the Customers Who Care campaign. The Bank has a published Ethical Policy cleearly stating where money will and will not be invested.
  
  

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