The Young Conservationist Award (yearly since 2005); Flying Squirrel surveys (yearly since 2010). In December 2017, Estonian Nature Tours invited the Belgium environmental journalist, Arthur Neslen, to Estonia, to write about the problem with intensive forest cutting here. We organized him different meetings up to high level politicians and the Environmental Ministry. Also, in April 2018, Forest Movement Europe (FME) and Environmental Paper Network (EPN) met for a conference on the west coast of Estonia in participation of representatives from 29 different organisations came from 24 countries all over the world. The meeting was called together by help of a civic movement Estonian Forest Aid (Eesti Metsa Abiks), environmental non-profit organisation Estonian Fund for Nature (Eestimaa Looduse Fond) and nature tour company Estonian Nature Tours.

We provide ethical bird tourism. We explain to our customers why we are not in favor of distributing GPS coordinates and not bringing groups closer to nests. Our bird guides are Estonian top field ornithologists, they are able to share information on the population of birds, as well as breeding and migration. During a tour Estonia in Autumn our customers can visit Sõrve and Kabli Bird Stations, get aquainted of the results of bird ringing etc.

Through our wider operations, we offer the unique environmental education trips in Europe – Flying Squirrel Study trips – always led by zoologist-ecologist who has researched them more than 25 years in Estonia.an important opinion, thought about sustainable tourism.

There is a lot of talk about developing sustainable tourism entrepreneurs. But we have to teach customers as well how to use sustainable tourism. If we want to have everything for free, we are not sustainable anymore. It is nice to contribute to and support the local communities. It shows appreciation. Cheap is not always best for those whose home you visit. With no income people cannot live here and then everyone is forced to move to the city, which would be a tragedy. Therefore I encourage everyone to use local services.

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The most memorable experience was sitting in the forest watching bears foraging. This operator stood out because of their personal service and expert local knowledge. To anyone considering this tour I’d say, do it!!
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