We fund the land, not just visit it
Five percent of every booking goes directly to rewilding partners and community land trusts — before we take a cent of profit. It's line-itemed on your receipt.
The reason we exist
Conservation isn't a page on our site. It's the point.
We started Slow Trails because tourism can either strip a place bare or help keep it whole. We chose whole — and we publish exactly how.
Our commitments
Local guides, fair wages
Every journey is led by someone from the region, paid at least twice the local guiding average, with tips passed on in full. No fly-in expedition leaders.
Leave-no-trace, measured
Group sizes capped at twelve, zero single-use plastic, and every flight offset through verified reforestation. We audit our footprint yearly and publish the number.
An open ledger
Where money goes, how many trees we've planted, which projects we fund — all public, updated every quarter. Trust is built on receipts, not adjectives.
The numbers, this year
- 18,400
- native trees planted
- $214k
- paid to land trusts
- 1,240
- hectares protected
- 37
- guiding families supported
How we actually do it
Regeneration over restraint
Doing less harm isn't enough. We choose journeys that put something back — replanting corridors between fragmented forests, funding ranger patrols in the off-season, and buying from farms that are healing their soil rather than mining it.
It costs a little more and moves a little slower. Our travelers tell us that's exactly why they come back.
We don't do this alone
Our conservation partners
Andean Corridor Trust
Reconnecting fragmented cloud-forest with replanted wildlife corridors.
Pantanal Waterkeepers
Community-led wetland monitoring and jaguar-safe cattle programs.
Kelp Forest Alliance
Restoring collapsed kelp beds along the Pacific fjord coastline.
Rooted Soils Co-op
A network of regenerative farms hosting our farm-stay journeys.
Delta Marsh Rangers
Year-round patrols protecting nesting grounds in the river delta.
One Tree Planted
Our verified reforestation partner for every offset we purchase.
The forest gave my grandfather a living, and it nearly disappeared. Guiding for Slow Trails means it can give my daughter one too — and still be here for hers.
Andean foothills
Travel in a way you can stand behind.
Every spot you book keeps a forest standing and a guide employed.
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