Travel for Nature
South Australia has always asked you to tread lightly. This is how you give back.
South Australia is the artisan corner of the country. Wild coast, red outback, vineyards and forest, and the people who know how to share them. We have always wanted visitors to get closer to the real South Australia, and to look after it while they are here.
Travel for Nature turns that care into something you can measure. When you visit a business in the program, part of what you spend funds native restoration across our regions, planted and tended by local partners on the ground. You can see exactly what has been put back in the dashboard below.
Get involved
Help leave South Australia better
Step 1
Local operators lead the way
Tourism businesses across South Australia have made native restoration part of what they already do. When you choose them, you're already having an impact.
Local operators lead the way
Tourism businesses across South Australia have made native restoration part of what they already do. When you choose them, you're already having an impact.
Make that impact yours
See where your impact sits on the map, what it's bringing back for the environment and community, and show your support by getting involved.
You can also contribute more
Our ecosystems come back
Your visit helps restore the country that makes South Australia so special. You can keep track here as that impact unfolds over time.
Come back to see your legacy grow
You've left something positive behind and are now part of our story. Come back and see it sometime.
And the cycle continues. Every visit adds to it.
See what South Australia is putting back
Live restoration across the program, project by project and site by site.
Please note: this dashboard is an illustrative demonstration only. The organisations, projects and figures shown are examples, not real program data.
Put restoration into every stay, tour and table.
Join the operators already funding native planting across the state, and give your guests a reason to choose you.
South Australian operators giving back
In practice it is simple. A share of each booking, stay or experience goes to restoration projects chosen for South Australia, and every contribution is tracked to the species and the site. Small amounts, multiplied across a whole state of visitors, add up to real country restored.
Mark Oliphant Restoration for Bandicoots
Mark Oliphant Conservation Park, in the forest country of the Adelaide Hills, is important habitat for the nationally endangered southern brown bandicoot, alongside native birds such as the scarlet robin, golden whistler and Adelaide rosella. Restoration here rebuilds the dense native understorey these species need to shelter and feed.
The people behind the program.
South Australia has built its name on doing things with more care than scale. This program lets every visit add to the place rather than just pass through it, and it gives us the proof to stand behind that promise.
Come for the plenty. Help it last.
