sustainable travel Archives – Terradrift https://terradrift.com/tag/sustainable-travel/ Hiking, Camping, Backpacking, and Travel Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:47:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://terradrift.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-150x150.png sustainable travel Archives – Terradrift https://terradrift.com/tag/sustainable-travel/ 32 32 146052273 Contribute to a Biodiversity Database When You Travel: Adventure in Portugal https://terradrift.com/contribute-to-a-biodiversity-database-when-you-travel-portugal/ https://terradrift.com/contribute-to-a-biodiversity-database-when-you-travel-portugal/#respond Thu, 18 May 2023 17:54:36 +0000 https://terradrift.com/?p=11129 Any trip that involves squatting next to a body of water for an extended period of time is a good trip in my book. 😂 No, I wasn't digging a cat hole next to a river (you know that's not Leave no Trace)! I was scooping up water to press through a teeny tiny filter next to a creek in Mondim de Basto, Portugal. Why? Uh, for science, that's why! Because I was on a trip with Exodus Travels that led a small group of journalists from Porto to the Douro Valley to Mondim de Basto to hike, stay in ancient estates transformed into hotels, eat at locally owned restaurants, explore picturesque wineries built into steep, terraced hillsides, and do science. Namely, collecting water in a bag, forcing it through a super fine filter, and shipping that filter off to a lab somewhere, all in the name of studying biodiversity. Yep, at the risk of sounding like a complete nerd, I was geeking out about participating in a different aspect of sustainable travel: using my exploratory endeavors for scientific and ecological good. And you could be, too! Here's how (and why citizen science matters when it comes to sustainable travel).

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