Um, you know, we're getting an airplanes were driving a car, so I think it's making a conscious effort to have that impact to be a smallest possible.

My name is Paula Franklin.

I'm half of Franklin Bailey.

We are a branding NPR agency focusing on sustainable travel in sub Saharan Africa.

Where you're staying really ask questions about plastic.

Are they using sustainable bath products?

Are they building with sustainable products when they are no longer a company?

Is that hotel gonna lie in ruin in some remote wilderness somewhere?

Or are they building with biodegradable deck ings and canvas?

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Support the local community?

Choose local products, whether it's food or shopping, any souvenirs saying in locally owned bed and breakfast and hotels.

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They're actually a lot of companies that will offset the carbon for you.

Hail M offers carbon offsetting.

When you book a flight, you pay the extra.

It's usually just planting trees somewhere.

The trees are often in the rain forest, so, like it's going to places that have been deforested.

Yeah, there are companies that are looking at the next level, really making an effort to have their money go to good.

I think steps travel there.

Actually, pioneering are before us your project in the UK Invisible cities from Scotland.

They train local homeless people.

Toby guides off their own city, African parks.

It's a public pirate partnership, so they take over the management of national parks when governments can't.

So I think right now they operate 20 national parks in Africa, where they're the only ones really focusing on this wildlife.

Think whether exotic and far away travel is always better.

Maybe there is something local that you can explore, and it will be equally exciting and adventurous.

We often think of sustainability.

It's somewhere far away.

It's an island in the South Pacific.

It's the African savannah.