Equal rights. Equal alternatives. Equal energy.
Be part of Nat Hab on March 8, 2025, to rejoice Worldwide Ladies’s Day beneath the theme, “For ALL Ladies and Women: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.”
This yr’s theme “requires motion that may unlock equal rights, energy and alternatives for all and a feminist future the place nobody is left behind. Central to this imaginative and prescient is empowering the subsequent era—youth, notably younger ladies and adolescent ladies—as catalysts for lasting change.”
Ladies and ladies undergo disproportionately from the impacts of biodiversity loss and local weather change. Research present that gender inequality exacerbates these vulnerabilities and threatens their livelihoods, well being, security and safety.
Empowering ladies’s participation in conservation uplifts communities and transforms lives.
Nat Hab Visitors on a Ladies’s Journey in Churchill, Manitoba. Photographed by Nat Hab Expedition Chief © Giulia Ciampini.
Trailblazers of the Journey Trade
Do you know the typical U.S. traveler is a 47-year-old lady? Ladies have an outsize affect within the journey business: They signify 57.1% of all vacationers in the USA, make practically 85% of all journey choices and make up the lion’s share of the worldwide tourism workforce at 54%.
In response to the United Nations World Tourism Group, the gender wage hole is decrease in tourism, and the proportion of girls in management roles is larger than in different industries. UNWTO and UN Ladies assert that protecting ladies’s empowerment on the ‘Heart Stage’ of sustainable tourism growth will assist them obtain their formidable purpose for world gender equality by 2030.
Tourism enhances cultural appreciation, generates new financial alternatives, and encourages environmental stewardship throughout native communities. More and more, ladies are breaking gender boundaries by taking over roles historically held by males, equivalent to tour guides and naturalists.
Nat Hab Expedition Chief Payal Mehta. Photographed by Nat Hab Employees © Dana Cama.
Listed below are a couple of methods ladies are driving significant change on a worldwide stage:
- Ladies’s Entrepreneurship Fuels Sustainable Growth: Ladies’s participation in financial actions creates a ripple impact that advantages households and fosters extra sustainable and resilient communities. They enhance literacy, training and public well being whereas additionally inspiring future generations of women and girls in ways in which male entrepreneurs usually don’t. Moreover, feminine enterprise house owners reinvest as much as 90% of their earnings into their households and communities, in comparison with 30-40% reinvested by males.
- Ladies in Conservation Management Roles: A evaluate of 17 research discovered that ladies’s involvement in conservation and pure useful resource administration led to extra sustainable extraction insurance policies, elevated compliance, enhanced transparency and accountability, and improved battle decision. The analysis signifies ladies usually tend to prioritize collective well-being over particular person achieve, leading to choices that promote the general public good, guarantee honest wages and advantages, and foster moral and trustworthy practices.
Learn “5 Causes to Help Ladies in Conservation” by Rebecca Self to be taught extra.
Nat Hab’s Nice Grey Whales of Baja all-woman information and subject workforce. Photographed by Nat Hab Employees © Dana Cama.
At Nat Hab, we all know that empowered ladies are highly effective brokers of change for individuals and the planet. Towards that finish, we launched Ladies’s Journeys, an journey collection solely for ladies vacationers.
A Letter from Nat Hab’s President, Heidi Anderson
As a lover of nature, you recognize wilderness helps us join with our most genuine selves. Our Ladies’s Journeys carry collectively like-minded vacationers for uplifting adventures, forging deep connections within the wild.
As Nat Hab’s new president, I’m happy with these transformative experiences. I’ve witnessed their magic firsthand—like sharing the northern lights with a gaggle of unbelievable ladies in Churchill, Manitoba.
Led by skilled ladies Expedition Leaders, these journeys mix a love for nature with the joys of discovery. Encounter polar bears within the Canadian Arctic, witness brown bear moms nursing their cubs in Alaska, hear the hum of monarch butterfly wings in Mexico, or seek for the Huge 5 on safari in South Africa.
However these journeys are about greater than wildlife—they foster significant connections. Whether or not you journey solo or with family members, you’ll discover camaraderie and an opportunity to recharge amongst supportive ladies, free from day by day burdens.
We additionally honor pioneering ladies in conservation, studying from researchers, explorers, and group leaders shaping our understanding of the wild. We rejoice the resilience of feminine animals, from elephant matriarchs to devoted beluga moms.
Nat Hab’s founder, Ben Bressler, credit his mom, Rosalind “Rozie” Bressler, for uplifting his journey. Her pioneering spirit lives on in these empowering adventures, uniting ladies who search to make an enduring influence on our planet.
Let’s proceed this journey collectively.
With gratitude,
Ladies’s Journeys
Nat Hab launched Ladies’s Journeys in 2023, to fast success. With overwhelming demand to supply extra, we’ve elevated our capability for women-only journeys by 75% within the final yr alone and plan to double that once more by 2025.
In intimate journey teams averaging simply 9 company, our completed ladies Expedition Leaders—together with Ph.D. scientists, wildlife biologists and conservationists—domesticate connections amongst ladies of all ages and life contexts. They provide deep perception into the vacation spot’s wildlife and cultural historical past and introduce company to the ladies group members who positively form the atmosphere.
“Our women-only departures construct a right away and significant group whereas empowering ladies to reconnect with their inside ‘wild,’” says Renata Haas, Nat Hab’s Head of Adventures, North America. “The influence of bringing ladies collectively to intimately witness the pure world spurs a ripple impact for lively discourse and alter.”
Nat Hab Visitors at Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba. Photographed by Nat Hab Employees © Megan Temporary
Empowering Tales About Ladies in Conservation Journey
Ladies’s Journeys champions ladies and their tales. Get impressed by watching this curated assortment of Nat Hab movies!
Ladies’s Journeys: Empowering Adventures in Nature
Rising within the Galapagos: A Nat Hab Information Story
When Josy Cardoso was a toddler, her single mom moved her household to the Galapagos to assist construct a greater life for her two younger daughters. Josy says her mom’s courageous resolution was “the perfect factor that would ever occur to us.”
When requested what Worldwide Ladies’s Day means to her, Josy says: “It signifies that ladies are lastly being acknowledged as an essential a part of the pyramid, wanted to make this world work. We respect that all of us must be a part of the workforce with the intention to have a profitable life, profession and household—and girls are the keystone in all this.” Watch to see how Josy’s distinctive upbringing led her to pursue an thrilling profession as an expert Expedition Chief.
Churchill’s Superior Aurora: A Nat Hab Information Story
Uncover the winter wonders of the aurora borealis with Canadian Expedition Chief Lianne Thompson, who loves guiding nature vacationers across the subarctic city of Churchill, Manitoba, to witness the awe-inspiring nighttime spectacle of the northern lights.
Discovering Residence in Alaska: A Nat Hab Information Story
Caprice Stoner has managed Nat Hab’s Lake Clark Alaska Bear Camp since 2006. Discover out what retains this Tennessee native—and grandmother of 5—coming again yr after yr to the Alaska wild and our company.
Strolling with Gorillas: A Rwandan Information Story
Rwandan ranger Jolie Mukiza has been main nature vacationers to view endangered mountain gorillas in Volcanoes Nationwide Park since 2012. Certainly one of three feminine guides at present main gorilla treks within the park, Jolie hikes this mountainous space 5 days per week throughout the excessive season, delighting her company together with her enthusiasm, experience, and in-depth data of the native terrain and wildlife.
Exploring East Greenland: A Nat Hab Traveler Story
On this private encounter shared with firsthand footage, Nat Hab visitor Kristin Hansen shares her expertise visiting East Greenland and the meaningfulness of touring right here together with her mom.
Wild Ladies of Alaska: Day by day Dose of Nature Webinar
The Final Frontier’s siren music has typically been answered by males, however a few of Alaska’s boldest and most adventurous pioneers had been ladies. Their legacy has given rise to fashionable ladies leaders charged with managing the state’s pure sources and wildlife. Expedition Chief Samantha Strauss celebrates ladies who formed Alaska by sharing tales certain to encourage up to date ladies to journey north.
Inside Our Ladies’s Journeys: Day by day Dose of Nature Webinar
Our company on these standard adventures typically inform us they really feel extra comfy in an all-women setting, particularly in the case of attempting new issues—from snowshoeing to kayaking with belugas to tenting in brown bear territory. Expedition Leaders Judy Wilson and Jessica Morgan focus on our empowering Ladies’s Journeys and the optimistic influence they’ve on our vacationers.
Rejoice Ladies’s Day by Sharing These Inspiring Tales:
My mother and I on a Ladies’s Journey at Nat Hab’s Alaska Bear Camp! © Megan Temporary
