The White Desert Foundation, launched in late 2024, is utilizing two decades of Antarctic expertise to further climate action and research. This initiative by White Desert, recognized in Travel + Leisure's 2025 Global Vision Awards, underscores the importance of sustainable tourism in a fragile environment. Each of its three camps, hosting only a dozen guests at a time, promotes intimate, eco-conscious experiences, all while maintaining a carbon-neutral footprint since 2007. The foundation recognizes Antarctica's role in global climate discourse, highlighting the continent's connectivity to worldwide environmental changes.
Antarctica really shows us how interconnected the world is," says Rebecca Warne, director for the White Desert Foundation. "Climate change didn't start in Antarctica, it's not going to be solved in Antarctica, but it is the basis of many global events.
Taking very small numbers of tourists there and doing it in a highly sustainable way was important to us," says Woodhead. "That permeated every element of our infrastructure and how we operate.
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