How your travels can help in conserving species on Earth Day

Earth Day 2019's message is to 'Protect Our Species'. Eco resorts, lodges and conservation-minded travel companies are looking after the wildlife in the surrounding environment. Some of these are giving travellers the opportunity to play a part in making a difference. Guests of the San Ignacio Resort Hotel in Belize can help conserve green iguanas through the resort’s Green Iguana Conservation Project focusing on the incubation, hatching, rearing and release of this endangered species. Bawah Reserve, tucked into Indonesia’s remote Anambas Archipelago, works to protect and improve the archipelago’s ecosystem, both on land and beneath the surface of the ocean. On Earth Day, guests of Bawah Reserve will be able to take part in a conservation dive, participate in developing the coral tree nurseries and assist in the reserve’s sea turtle conservation efforts. Singita in Africa announced its partnership with Panthera, an organisation dedicated to the conservation of the world’s 40 wild cat