A sustainable world, like meeting the wildest animals
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Approaching wild animals can be considered reckless or a form of conscientious art . If you want, you can too.
Olly Williams Y Suzi Winstanley They are two artists madly in love with nature. They met as students at Central Saint Martins in London in 1987 and since then their aim has been to document and draw attention to “ the fragile balance between man and nature ”. One of his methods is to make his paintings directly on-site , Come in wild animals and sometimes the bears, wolves and leopards collaborate actively in the works leaving their traces or, as a great white shark once did, biting into the canvas.
White shark biting the canvas
Today, having become successful artists, the mission of Olly & Suzi remains the same, but now, in addition, as an extension of their art, they run the agency Olly Suzi Expeditions, specializing in Tailor-made tours in the Arctic and East Africa , with which they provide you with the opportunity to get close to wild animals that inspire you so much.
The chance to get up close to wild animals
OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT EXPANDS
In 2014 they discovered 221 new species of plants and animals: 16 beetles, 110 ants, three spiders, 28 fish, one tiny mammal ...and even a fossil of a new kind of 23 million year old shark . The value of these discoveries goes beyond the existence of new species and demonstrates their importance for the global health of our planet. But while Madagascar , the deserts of Namibia , the seas of Philippines and the jungles of malaysia are the hot spots of these discoveries , all over the world there are projects under way to reintroduce species that have almost disappeared from their habitats: from buffalo on the great american plains oryx in the arabian peninsula brown bears in Italy.
Next trip: go on a safari
This May, the european bison , more endangered than the black rhino, will return to graze in the mountains Tarcu from Romania for the first time since 1790. Behind the project is the Rewilding Europe Foundation. If you want to see some of the endangered species up close and do your part to stop their disappearance, a good idea is participate in safaris of the Spanish company EcoWildlife Travel. Panda bears in China, orangutans in Borneo, tigers in India, jaguars in Brazil, lynxes in Spain...
On safari meeting the world
SUSTAINABLE DREAMS
After ten years of the tsunami that hit the Southeast Asian , in the remote Havelock , one of the islands andaman , in India, opens this month Jalakara , the first boutique hotel of the archipelago , with a marked character ecological . Only eight suites and countless water activities, in addition to yoga, cooking classes, and seaplane flights to nearby islands.
Not far away, in Sri Lanka , the new Gal Oya Lodge , built entirely with natural materials local, allows guests of its nine bungalows discover one of the most unknown national parks in the country , enjoy encounters with indigenous vedas and hopefully see the elephants swimming from one island to another.
At the other end of the Indian Ocean, on an idyllic beach in the south of Kenya , has just opened Saruni Ocean with a proposal for wellness Y thalassotherapy pioneer in african coast.
* This article is published in Condé Nast Traveler's February 81 issue. This number is available in its digital version for iPad in the iTunes AppStore, and in the digital version for PC, Mac, Smartphone and iPad in the Zinio virtual kiosk (on Smartphone devices: Android, PC/Mac, Win8, WebOS, Rims, iPad). Also, you can find us on Google Play Newsstand.
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Saruni Ocean, a pioneering wellness and thalassotherapy proposal on the African coast.