New Company Launches Conservation Travel Adventures

A new travel company has launched this summer to offer an innovative kind of conservation-focused, immersive, and emotionally resonant experience. TerraFauna Journeys offers luxury small-group and private adventures that reconnect travelers with the wild and their role in protecting it.

With 93% of global travelers now prioritizing responsible and sustainable travel choices, TerraFauna launches onto the scene at a time when travelers are seeking deeper meaning, environmental stewardship, and authentic connection in their journeys.

Pilot adventures include gorilla trekking in Uganda with wildlife ranger Denis Onyiko and his team, exploring rewilding efforts in Argentina, and uncovering biodiversity from coast to canopy in Costa Rica. Rooted in the belief that “conservation begins with connection,” TerraFauna journeys are co-created with local conservationists, Indigenous leaders, and ecological researchers. Each itinerary invites travelers not only to witness the world’s most awe-inspiring ecosystems but to actively participate in their protection.

One of TerraFauna’s pilot journeys in 2026 is Roots of the Wild: Rewilding, Jaguar Habitats & Cultural Soul of Argentina.

TerraFauna Journeys

“We don’t just visit wild places. We partner with the people protecting them,” said Ami Jones, founder of TerraFauna Journeys. “Travelers become collaborators in conservation. This is emotional travel. It’s travel with impact.”

Rather than partnering with large hotel chains, TerraFauna collaborates with locally owned lodges so that the economic benefit stays within the communities travelers visit—such as Ride 4 a Woman in Uganda, an organization founded by Evelyne Habasa that empowers women through job training, microfinance, and community-run lodging. TerraFauna travelers stay at Ride 4 a Woman’s guesthouse, and those tourism dollars directly support women’s entrepreneurship and education initiatives in Bwindi.

Transformative Conservation Travel

Because TerraFauna journeys directly support the grassroots conservation organizations the company partners with, guests in turn are supporting on-the-ground efforts to protect endangered species, restore wild landscapes, and empower local communities. This is travel designed to leave a legacy of regeneration.

This kind of travel can also help travelers themselves become more conservation minded.

“There’s no amount of PowerPoints or David Attenborough specials or magazine articles that come even close to having a personal experience with the things we’re protecting,” James Sano, vice president of travel, tourism, and conservation for the World Wildlife Fund, which protects wildlife and vulnerable places and communities, told me for a story I reported for Outside in 2020. “People can read about Glacier National Park, but that doesn’t hold a candle to someone actually going there.” Personal experiences, at places like Glacier—which is the national park poster child for climate change as its namesake glaciers are melting—can catalyze new behaviors toward conservation. WWF’s data proves it: of people who donate to WWF, those who’ve traveled contribute up to 27 times more money to the organization’s conservation work than those who don’t travel.

“Our mission is to spark a global movement where travel becomes a force for ecological renewal,” adds Jones. “This isn’t just a business. It’s a blueprint for how conservation and tourism can work together to create a better future.”