Best Environmental/Responsible Tourism Feature • Honourable Mention
THIS SOUTH AFRICAN WINERY GAVE ITS WORKERS AN OWNERSHIP STAKE The South African wine industry is notorious for its brutal conditions. To improve workers’ lives, Solms-Delta decided it was time to “extend the pie” The Cape region of South Africa has been producing wine since the 1650s. In recent years the industry, which employs some […]
Best Environmental/Responsible Tourism Feature • Second Place
Where the Wild Things Are – Science and Sightings in the Great Bear Rainforest It’s just after 7 a.m. and I’m standing in a 12-person passenger boat that’s skimming the Johnstone Strait, headed for Knight Inlet in the Great Bear Rainforest. I’m on a daylong, grizzly bear-watching excursion with Tide Rip Tours, and with every […]
Best Environmental/Responsible Tourism Feature • First Place
An Old-Growth Battlefield – Can We Save our Ancient Matriarchs? A moss-covered boardwalk led us through a rainforest of immense trees and wild growth in the Walbran Valley west of Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Bright green moss and fungi clung to fallen trees and logs. Huckleberry and thimbleberry bushes sprouted. Delicate sword […]
Best Environmental/Responsible Tourism Feature • First Place • 2016
Vancouver volunteer uses past skills as a cook to assist refugees When my friend Laurie Cooper asked if I’d consider volunteering at a refugee camp, I didn’t hesitate. I wanted to do something for the Syrian refugees coming to Vancouver, but I couldn’t offer accommodation or much money. It never occurred to me that I […]
Best Environmental/Responsible Tourism Feature • Second Place • 2016
Turtles with jobs I love turtles. Not the chocolate kind or the teenage-mutant characters made famous in the 1980s but the hard-shelled ballerinas of the ocean. I almost swallowed my snorkel the first time I saw a wild sea turtle. Watching colorful angelfish in Maui several years ago, a turtle larger than my suitcase floated […]