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Podcast/Video Interviews by Stephen IbarakiA Chat with Duncan Grossart: Award-winning entrepreneurship through to environmental and nature conservation work; Founder of Journeys With Purpose
This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Duncan Grossart.
Duncan Grossart is the Founder of Journeys With Purpose, with a great love of the natural world, wildernesses and travel. Journeys With Purpose is a member of 1% for the Planet, The Long Run, and a Certified B Corp, and as B Corp's highest scoring travel company it's been awarded "Best for the World: Environment 2022".
Duncan passionately believes in restoring our relationship with the natural world, conserving landscapes and harmonising lives and prosperous communities.
A zoology graduate (BSc + MSc), his career spans award-winning entrepreneurship through to environmental and nature conservation work and has been focused entirely on rewilding in recent years. His rewilding and landscape-scale restoration experience includes work with Rewilding Britain, WildEast, The European Nature Trust and Rewilding Europe. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Zoological Society of London, Royal Society for Asian Affairs and Scientific Exploration Society, and a published photographer.
Duncan is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization, where he is a board member of the Planet Action Network, a committee member of the Global Impact Summit Rwanda 2024 and a Travel Network Minister.
Listen to his podcast with Rewilding Earth here: Spreading Rewilding Awareness and Advocacy via Journeys With Purpose
- Journeys With Purpose's 2030 Vision:
- '30 by 30' < designate 30% of Earth's land and ocean area as protected areas by 2030. And then to '50 by 50' ...
- $30 million in donations and impact investments since 2019
- 30,000 committed Impact Community change-makers and activists
- 30 million acres of land and 30 million acres of seas protected and restored
- $30 million in JWP sales in 2030 - our commercial success drives mission success
- Recent Updates:
- JWP's B Corp Annual Impact Report 2024 is here and attached - we're the world's highest scoring B Corp travel company, focusing on experiential and impact travel, nature protection, restoration and local communities welfare - and as such been awarded "Best for the World: Environment 2022"
- our latest launch - Palau - Restoring Island-Ocean Ecosystems, and also here - with the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge, Island Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Re:wild.
- we have a webinar this month with Ben Goldsmith of Conservation Collective for our journey together - The Stewards of Sri Lanka Please register for the webinar here. Our prior events are here.
- sharing Annabel Heseltine's recent article on her journey to Carpathia - see attached
- just published - Tim Chester's piece in AFAR magazine following his trip with JWP to Argentina last year. Tim weaves together his experience in Patagonia Azul and introduces the brilliant work by Rewilding Argentina - https://www.afar.com/magazine/how-tourism-is-helping-protect-argentinas-wild-coastline