Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Tell the United States Congress to pass the Clean Cruise Ship Act. Last week I wrote about the environmental damage of the cruise industry. Wherever we stand on cruises, hopefully we all agree that they should be as environmentally friendly as possible. Right now, that is far from true. The cruise industry is largely unregulated [...]
This post is my contribution to Blog Action Day, which this year is focusing on climate change. We’ve heard it all before. Air travel is evil. If your vacation involves a plane then you are burning the planet. While this may be somewhat of an exaggeration, it’s quite true that aviation is one of the [...]
Hartz Mountains National Park, Tasmania; February 2007 In February 2007, I visited my friend Katrina in Hobart, Tasmania. She was madly studying for a medical exam but she managed to take a day off to play with me and we headed up to hike in Hartz Mountains National Park. Tasmania is one of my favourite [...]
News just in… Africa’s Eden, the eco-tourism project in Loango National Park in Gabon, is closed due to a dispute between the Gabonese government and the tourism operator / regional airline. The press release from Africa’s Eden says Loango Lodge will be closed to international visitors until at least 20 September this year. Catherine Eviter, [...]
Peru has always held an enormous fascination for me and climbing Machu Picchu has long been on my list of things to do. But archaeologists are warning that Peru’s Incan ruins, including Machu Picchu, are straining under a tourist boom. For a long time, travelling to Peru was complicated by the continuing struggle with the [...]
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