World Peace! (Good luck with that.)
Stop Global Warming! (Not any time soon.)
Here’s our approach to saving the world:
- Deliver binoculars, GPS units, and tents to Maasai game scouts—Done.
- Weld new roof beams for a rental cabin on a conservation ranch in Mexico—Done.
- Revive traditional boat building methods in a remote Pacific island community—Done.
- Scout a new safari route on community land in Kenya’s South Rift Valley—Done.
- Provide vehicular support for a biodiversity assessment expedition—Done.
The founders of ConserVentures have decades of experience with conservation and community development organizations large and small. Long ago we realized something: The loftier the goals, the bigger the budgets, the higher the stacks of paperwork, and the more inertia, delaying or even preventing real solutions.
We keep things simple: We promote conservation through exploration. Exploration leads to personal connections, personal connections lead to awareness, and awareness leads to action, face-to-face. ConserVentures helps make those connections.
ConserVentures board member meeting Maasai ladies in a remote village in northern Tanzania.
We are not a tour company: we don't run tourist trips or excursions. If we are involved in travel, it is connected to delivering donated equipment, skills, or supporting an ongoing project.
The projects we support all use tourism as a conservation tool, providing funding and employment opportunities. We frequently promote these travel opportunities.
ConserVentures team members do not solve problems. We work with community members who have already identified challenges unique to their situation, but who lack the resources to single-handedly overcome those challenges.
When local people have initiated the projects, and have invested in them with their own funds and work, the collaborative results are much more successful—and far more sustainable.
Sometimes our assistance takes to form of direct action; other times we simply provide a connection between a community facing a challenge to people with the expertise to overcome that challenge. Our board, advisors, and founders volunteer their time; when needed, we hire experts to work on projects or conduct trainings. Funds come from donations and grants. The Overland Expo is a for-profit venture that contributes a proceeds to ConserVentures for charitable work each year; the event is run by founders Roseann & Jonathan Hanson.
The mission of ConserVentures is to encourage people to explore their world (by promoting adventure travel), and to support tourism projects and conservation work not only through participation and generous donations, but also by providing connections to institutions and people who can help in tangible ways.
Margaret Mead said: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. We believe this, too.
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Contact:
Phone +1 520.591.1410 (GMT -7)
Fax +1 520.208.2303
Mail: 3400 E. Speedway Blvd., Suite 118-138
Tucson AZ 85716 USA