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If you want to see at first hand how luxury tourism and sound eco practice can go hand in hand head for the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge located beside the sacred Inca ruins of Machu Picchu

Starting from April 2008, seven resorts in the Cayman Islands are piloting a new initiative, being put in place jointly by the destination and its private tourism sector, to bring about improved environmental performance within the industry.

A TRANSATLANTIC flight creates roughly 1.2 tonnes of carbon dioxide per passenger. Does this mean that you are a carbon criminal if you take a family holiday in the Caribbean? That certainly seems to be the gist of the debate in Britain about the contribution of air travel to climate change.

the former head of the Kenya Wildlife Service, is no stranger to controversy. In the 1980s he stopped elephant poaching almost in its tracks with a “shoot to kill” policy that ruffled liberal feathers. Later, his burning of 12 tonnes of captured ivory was seen on television news bulletins around the world.

Do you take a “normal” number of return flights every year? A skiing week in the winter, perhaps, and a longer villa holiday in the summer? Plus a couple of long weekends to the Continent? Maybe a shopping trip to New York? Then, whether you like it or not, you’re a carbon criminal.

Sunning in paradise and saving the planet? Turtle conservation in the Maldives is the ultimate feel-good holiday, says Katie Bowman

Moun Somrach, 22, comes from a poor village near the Tonlé Sap lake in Cambodia. He has seven brothers and sisters, a tricky relationship with his stepmother, and was scraping a living catching fish.

The UN is encouraging ecotourism to the former disaster zone to help the area get back on its feet

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Al Gore held a post Nobel Prize news conference in Palo Alto California on Oct. 12, 2007. A few local bloggers "sneaked" into the event and reported the event on Simple Green Choices blog.