Not a line item. A founding commitment.

Who it goes to

Anti-poaching funding goes directly to ranger units and patrol equipment in the reserves we operate in — not to a central fund we distribute at our own discretion. Habitat restoration work runs in partnership with local forest departments, planting corridors between fragmented forest blocks rather than isolated plots picked for visibility. Community livelihoods funding trains local youth as naturalists, which does two things at once: it gives Earthbound Trails the resident guides its departures depend on, and it gives people who’d otherwise have few options an alternative to extractive work inside buffer zones.

None of this is unique to Earthbound Trails as an idea — most wildlife operators claim some version of it. What we can offer instead of a bigger claim is a smaller, checkable one: the same figures above appear in every departure’s costing, they’re reviewed annually, and Our Story explains the founding decision that made room for them in the budget in the first place.