Journeys With Purpose reveals the conservation milestones to experience in 2025

Journeys With Purpose, the conservation travel specialist, reveals the conservation milestones to experience in 2025. The extraordinary journeys will introduce guests to the influential programmes making a positive impact for the environment, local communities and wildlife across the globe.  The collection, all new for 2025, celebrates the achievements of some of the world’s most ambitious projects and the breakthroughs they’re expecting to realise in the next 12 months.

Journeys With Purpose guests will traverse the northern great plains of Montana with American Prairie Reserve in what will become the largest national park in the contiguous USA. Join Earthshot Prize winner, Acción Andina, in the restoration of one million hectares of high montane native forest in the Peruvian Andes. Contribute to the recovery of the native Chiricahua leopard frog population in New Mexico. Chart the return of the lynx to Spain’s Iberian Peninsula.  These new and exclusive experiences are available to book privately, as a small group, or as part of signature scheduled departures.  Find more details below.

“Journeys With Purpose connects guests with the most ambitious and successful conservation initiatives across the world,” said Venetia Martin, Managing Director of Journeys With Purpose.  “Our selection of conservation milestones for 2025, celebrates the most exciting achievements expected over the next 12 months, and invites our guests to contribute to their legacy, as investors in and advocates for the natural world.

“Our mission-led travel supports a 2030 nature-positive, climate-resilient goal. With transparency, we advance pioneering conservation projects, raising over $50,000 in 2023. Discover our partner projects and join our impactful journeys,” said Venetia.

Since its inception in 2019, Journeys With Purpose has been creating impactful travel experiences that connect audiences with the most innovative and effective conservation projects that protect and restore the natural world.  These exclusive, behind-the-scenes experiences are designed to establish a generation of advocates and ambassadors that have the power to advance the essential work the people, projects, and communities provide.  Guests are often personally hosted by the pioneering conservationists that drive the organisations and, having gained unparalleled insight, choose to commit significant lasting investment that secures their legacy over the long-term.

Cross the largest national park in the contiguous USA 

Join American Prairie Reserve in their mission to create a multi-million-acre nature reserve in Montana to conserve the species-rich grasslands of the iconic Great Plains for future generations.  Traverse the sagebrush plains, riparian areas, and the steep, eroded hills of the Missouri Breaks, to comprehend the 3.2 million acres of private and public land that will become the largest national park in the contiguous USA.  Spend nights under canvas and days floating along the Missouri River where bison, prairie dogs and elk roam freely, learn more about the region’s indigenous history and follow in the footsteps of 19th century explorers, Lewis and Clarke, while immersed in the dramatic landscape [the very picture of Yellowstone!]

Sample the flavours of the Peruvian Andes and support the protection of 1 million hectares of rainforest 

Meet Acción Andina, the social movement that is encouraging local rural communities and governments to work together to save the Peruvian rainforest.  The high-altitude regions are home to around 45,000 plant species and thousands of bird, reptile, and amphibian species.  Visit native tree nurseries that are not only critical for reforestation and job creation, but also cultivate food crops alongside Polylepis seedlings to protect food security in rural areas.  Join a Queuña Raymi Tree Planting Ceremony that sees Andean communities unite to celebrate the precious saplings being restored within the rich soil.  Guests traverse the diverse landscape of the Sacred Valley and sample traditional flavours combined in contemporary menus, sip wine made from fermented flowers, and learn about the 4,000 varieties of native potato that originated in the highlands of the Andes.  
Reestablish native Chiricahua leopard frog populations in New Mexico 

Experience the groundbreaking conservation projects, led by Ted Turner Reserves, the Founder of CNN and philanthropist’s organisation that is working to protect over one million acres of New Mexico’s majestic landscapes. Stay at Vermejo, Ted’s northern New Mexico ranch, spread over 550,000 acres and home to more than 1,200 North American bison, abundant wildlife, diverse landscapes. Here the thriving population of native Rio Grande cutthroat trout have been brought back from the brink of extinction.

Check into Southern New Mexico at one of Ted’s two historic homes, the Country House at Ladder or the Hacienda at Armendaris, and witness nature in balance. Discover the ambitious programmes working to restore Mexican grey wolves, Chiricahua leopard frogs, Bolson tortoises to their native habitats.

Stay between June and September to witness the nightly emergence of over a million Mexican free-tailed bats from subterranean caves formed by lava flows.

Uncover Europe’s very first Wild River National Park in Albania

Recently established as Europe’s first wild river national park, the protection of the Vjosa has laid the foundations for the Aoos-Vjosa Transboundary Park in partnership with the neighbouring Greek authorities. One of Europe’s last remaining wild rivers, the Vjosa is a complex ecosystem and provides a home for otters, stone curlews and the threatened Egyptian vulture – the critical habitat is home to 13 animal species and two plant species listed as globally threatened by IUCN. Journeys With Purpose guests will learn the unique value of this lush environment, the itinerary includes hiking along scenic trails, swimming in thermal baths, rafting, biking, birdwatching and sitting down to share stories with Albanian shepherds and the conservationists preserving this delicate ecosystem.

Chart the return of the Iberian Lynx to Spain’s Peninsula

Contribute to one of Spain’s most successful rewilding projects bringing lynx back to the Iberian Peninsula. Track and monitor the apex predators in the Montes de Toledo mountain range, just under an hour and a half from Madrid, alongside the expert scientists that are driving the projects.  This behind-the-scenes safari experience will traverse the 12,000 acre private estate via 4×4 and on foot, through Mediterranean forest ecosystems, extensive pastures, and mountain ranges to understand how the team has begun to recover this keystone species from near-extinction to a population of over 300.  Guests will also learn about the vulture recovery programme that is seeing the cinereous vulture, griffon vulture and the Spanish Imperial eagle return to this Spanish mountain region.

Progress the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge in Palau

Contribute to the ambitious aims of the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge – rewild at least 40 globally significant island-ocean ecosystems from ridge to reef by 2030.  Almost half of these initiatives are currently underway with five years remaining and Journeys With Purpose guests can be a part of this impressive global transformation.

Explore technicolour coral reefs, lagoons and forest trails in the company of experienced local guides and Island Conservation & Scripps’ experts to learn about the invaluable connection between marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Collect eDNA along Ulong’s shoreline, drop into the key archeological sites, visit shark nurseries and monitor coral, marine and bird species across the archipelago.

Track snow leopards in Ladakh, India, the roof of the world

Ladakh, a former Tibetan Buddhist Kingdom, is surrounded by some of the world’s greatest mountain ranges and the harshest conditions on earth.  This challenging environment makes for the ideal habitat for snow leopards and is understood to be home to the greatest concentration of this magnificent creature globally.  Under the expert care of the world’s finest expedition guides and intelligence from across the region, track snow leopards on foot or by 4×4, to understand how the ‘ghost of the mountain’ is impacted by the changing temperatures worldwide. Guests will gain an insight into the culture and history that makes this region so special and contribute to the conservation programmes that ensure cohesion between its human and animal neighbours.

Tompkins Conservation launches the eighteenth national park in Chile

The new Cape Froward National Park is set at the southernmost tip of the South American continent and will stretch over 300,000 acres, roughly the size of Malta, many of which are considered critical to climate change mitigation.  Subantarctic forest covers nearly half of the proposed donation area, as well as 24,710 acres of peatlands, an ecosystem that sequests three-times the amount of carbon than the Amazon Rainforest.

Embark on a wild self-drive adventure through rainforest, glaciers and steppe, for encounters with the endangered Huemul Deer, Patagonian Puma and mighty Andean Condor.  Stay in secluded lodges and guesthouses or take to the ocean to discover the  Magellanic penguins, Peale’s dolphins, and Sei and humpback whales in these waters, where the Antarctic, Pacific and Atlantic currents converge.