Terra Incognita Ecotours is an adventure travel company that is committed to making a difference to travelers and to the places they visit. Drawing on their legacy of adventure, experience, and knowledge, their commitment is to provide travelers with opportunities to participate in unforgettable ecotours while creating a sense of discovery and wonder for guests in destinations around the world while preserving the environment for future generations. Terra Incognita Ecotours creates wildlife-focused ecotours and experiences that are as enriching and memorable as they are comfortable and fun.

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Terra Incognita Ecotours offers unforgettable itineraries to destinations around the globe. Travelers are treated to immersive cultural interaction, up close and personal access to indigenous wildlife, and travel experiences that give travelers the opportunity to make a difference while enjoying their eco-vacation. Terra Incognita Ecotours takes visitors on adventures like these:

Rainforest, Reefs, and Ruins of Belize

A Red Ape Enounter in Borneo

Jaguars, Tapirs, Macaws, and More in Brazil

In Search of the Giant Panda in China

Cloud Forests, Rain Forests, Volcanoes, and Beaches of Costa Rica

The Land of Darwin in the Galapagos

In Search of the Snow Leapord in India

Photo Expedition in Madagascar: The Land that Time Forgot

From the Amazon to the Andes in Peru

In the Realm of the Mountain Gorilla in Rwanda

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Terra Incognita Ecotours pledges to engage in responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people. In each destination they visit, Terra Incognita partners with a local conservation project for each trip. This partnership helps improve their ability to continue the vital conservation work that each program performs, and the partnership benefits Terra Incognita's travelers by both providing an in-depth behind the scenes look at local conservation challenges, and also provides travelers with the assurance that their visit has had a positive local impact; that their visit has indeed made a difference.

Terra Incognita Ecotours adheres to the following principles:

• Minimize impact
• Build environmental and cultural awareness and respect
• Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts
• Provide direct financial benefits for conservation
• Provide financial benefits and empowerment for local people
• Raise sensitivity to host countries’ political, environmental, and social climate
• Support international human rights and labor agreements

Terra Incognita Ecotours takes these principles to heart, and for every person who joins one of their ecotours, they make a donation to one of the leading conservation organizations working in the area. They partner with these organizations to help increase their effectiveness. Terra Incognita's conservation partners will send a representative to join them, to explain their work, to provide added insight, and to make each travelers' experience more relevant, rewarding, and unique.

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Gerard “Ged” Caddick founded Terra Incognita Ecotours in 2004 after over fifteen years of working in the Expedition Travel industry. Ged worked for Lindblad Expeditions as Expedition Leader from 1992-2004, and for International Expeditions while living in Belize in the 1980’s. Ged has led trips for the World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic Society and the American Museum of Natural History as well as many College Alumni groups, the National Audubon Society and the Smithsonian Institution.

Ged lived in Belize, Central America for a number of years in the late 1980’s and worked in the Conservation of Endangered Species for twelve years before becoming involved in the Expedition Travel industry. It is this mix of Expedition Travel (a.k.a. ecotourism) and Conservation that has helped to shape how Terra Incognita Ecotours operates.

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The International Ecotourism Society

ekoVenture

Responsible Travel

Ecotour Directory

Nominated as “Best Tour Operator” in the 2006 First Choice Responsible Tourism Awards

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