Navigate Expeditions is dedicated to creating a positive impact on the environment, community, and culture. Through immersive and nature-based experiences, we aim to offer regenerative travel opportunities that leave a lasting, positive mark on the places we explore.
Navigate Expeditions have achieved advanced ecotourism, climate action and respecting our culture (ROC) business certification with Ecotourism Australia. It assures travellers that certified products are backed by a strong, well managed commitment to sustainable practices and provides high quality nature-based tourism experiences.
ADVANCED ECOTOURISM
Australia’s leading and most innovative ecotourism products that operate with minimal impact on the environment and provide opportunities to learn about the environment with operators who are committed to achieving best practice, using resources wisely, contributing to conserving the environment and helping local communities.
CLIMATE ACTION BUSINESS
Businesses that have undertaken a set of adaptation and emissions reduction actions and are measuring and tracking their carbon footprint.
Respecting Our Culture (ROC) Certification
ROC certified tourism operators are committed to protecting cultural authenticity and integrity, developing sound business practices, environmental protection and acknowledging Indigenous peoples spiritual connection to the land and water.
Tourism is responsible for roughly 8% of the world’s carbon emissions (Nature Climate Change 2018). We believe that we need to calculate, reduce, and offset our emissions. We have adopted the following strategies and are on a continuous journey to find even more avenues for offsetting our emissions.
If you are interested in calculating, reducing and offsetting your own carbon emissions we recommend ecologi.com to help you on your journey.
We focus on low-carbon outdoor experiences like kayaking, walking, and mountain biking.
We track our greenhouse gas emissions. This allows us to actively manage, reduce, and offset our carbon footprint.
We plant native trees for all multi-day tour guests and offer a tree-purchase option at checkout for day tours to offset carbon.
Our green purchasing policy prioritises regional suppliers with minimal packaging, keeping our spending local to significantly reduce transport emissions.
Hiring local staff who share our climate values reduces commuting emissions and keeps economic benefits within the community.
We provide fresh water refills for guest bottles and use reusable packaging and tableware for all picnics, completely avoiding single-use materials.
Every tour contributes between $1 and $5 directly to local environmental, cultural, or community organisations.
We partner with local groups like Atlas of Life and use apps like iNaturalist to track climate impacts and promote environmental stewardship.
We buy catering supplies in bulk to reduce packaging. On tour, all waste is meticulously sorted, organics are composted, and recyclables are processed correctly.