How Ecosia is making our guest's travel more sustainable
Have you heard of Ecosia? Maybe you are a Google fan… But our office recently moved to the search engine, Ecosia, and have never looked back! We highly recommend learning more about Ecosia and what they do.
Ecosia is a search engine that is based in Berlin, Germany. Ecosia considers itself a social business and is carbon-negative (meaning it offsets more carbon than in creates) and this is fully supported by their excellent monthly financial reports. Ecosia is B-Cop certified, meaning it meets all the high standards linked to sustainability, accountability and performance.
As an office, The Safari Series has been using Ecosia (instead of Google or any other search engine) since Jan 2022 and in that time our searches (across 3 computers) have planted over 1,500 trees! Each tree has to be over 3 years old to count in Ecosia’s tally, meaning there is no ‘planting without care’.
When we began using Ecosia 12 months ago, Ecosia had just planted 150,000,000 trees. Over the year it is fun to watch the count grow to over 166,000,000 trees. Our searches have helped to push this total up! Ecosia reports that they fund an average of 75 trees per minute - from the revenue it makes from advertising.
The Safari Series also tries to be as carbon-neutral as possible. We promise to offset any travel by any guest to our camp through tree planting. Understanding how to do this is quite a challenge and the count is more of an estimate than a detailed analysis, but below you can see how we worked out where our guests travelled from, how they travelled to and from the camp and therefore how much carbon they created doing that. Based on this data, we then offset this carbon creation through buying ‘tree bundles’ through Ecosia.
We bought 50 trees through Ecosia, that were planted in projects in Kenya, that support landscape rehabilitation. These trees will be cared for by Ecosia partners, and will help to make our camp just that extra bit better for our country’s wellbeing.
