GREEN TRAVEL
Travel and Environment

The BSAC is not an environmental organisation, it's a diving organisation, but it does have its concerns and strongly supports environmentally sound diving. Yes, you can be concerned or interested in the environment and still travel. For diving, at least try to use environmentally-aware operators and dive environmentally-aware.

Going beyond being just a tourist and maybe getting a lot more out of both the travel and the diving can be achieved by joining one of the:

Eco-Tour Companies
Doing the ecology-tour is the new travel craze. Lots of organisations are billing themselves as offering travel that is environmentally sensitive, but here we are listing those that are asking you to be active and involved. Yes, they may want your money but these also want you to do some work! Often such things as marine life surveys, occasionally an archaeological survey, teaching in local areas. We might even have some offering paid holidays, err... jobs.

The work these companies do with your help can be very beneficial, even vital, in developing sound policies for the areas under study. Some participants may wonder why it still seems to cost; simple, governments often don't fund or fully fund such work so it's taken on as a self-funding voluntary effort. Generally, if you consider the amount of time you can be present on such a tour it can represent good value for money.