How to Travel More Sustainably
From baby steps to game changers.
As an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole world stopped for a while (it’s hard to believe it’s more than a year and a half already!). Travelling was among many other things that have been halted. All travel-lovers, digital nomads, hospitality workers, and many more experienced this side of the “new reality” a lot.
Meanwhile, in the first few weeks and months, the media got excited about natural phenomena.
Shortly after the COVID-19 outbreak was announced, people could see the following clearly uplifting pieces of news:
· dolphins came back to Venice, Italy (which, btw. according to National Geographic, was fake),
· rare turtles were born on a Thai beach.
Yet, these beautiful pieces of information are not proof that nature got better because of the COVID pandemic. On the contrary, according to conservation.org the situation got far worse. As people have lost their jobs in cities, they were pressured by the economy to go back to rural areas. Deforestation, wildlife poaching, and illegal mining increased, creating a great danger to the environment but also to the indigenous people that were exposed to the lethal disease. The unguarded natural areas that were previously protected became exposed to illegal…
