2024/25 Impact & Sustainability Report
We’re pleased to share our 2024/2025 Impact and Sustainability Report, a detailed account of how NawiriGroup continues to pioneer in driving impact and sustainability practices across East and Southern Africa.
From the outset, Nawiri was built as a genuinely purpose-led group. Impact and sustainability are not parallel programmes or add-ons to our business, they shape how we operate, where we invest, and how we grow. This report reflects that approach, grounded in long-term partnerships, rigorous governance, and a clear belief that thriving ecosystems and thriving communities depend on one another.
Over the past year, we’ve continued to refine and strengthen how we deliver impact, learning from what works, addressing gaps, and scaling approaches that show lasting value. Across 2024/2025, Nawiri Group was actively engaged in partnerships throughout the continent, working alongside local organisations, community institutions and government authorities in some of Africa’s most globally important ecosystems.
NawiriGroup exists to connect people, places, and purpose through travel that strengthens the bond between thriving ecosystems and resilient communities. We bring together responsible travel businesses, conservation partners, and community organisations with the shared belief that tourism can be a regenerative force that protects nature, supports livelihoods, and builds shared prosperity across Africa’s most vital landscapes.
Over the year we generated US$11 million of funding to nature protection and positive impact projects across East and Southern Africa.
Our guests helped generate over US$8.4m in direct contributions to nature protection through park fees, tourism levies, and conservation taxes that keep protected areas functioning. A further US$2.6m was channelled through our impact partners, a 27% increase on the previous year. The projects they deliver are diverse, but all are rooted in supporting livelihoods, improving local governance, creating access to education, and strengthening the connection between people and the landscapes they live within.
Examples of our impact in FY 2024/25 include:
Funding across 28 implementation partners, delivering projects in education, governance, livelihoods, health and ecosystem protection.
Support for over 20,000 primary school students across 57 rural schools, addressing educational needs through infrastructure, desks, books, teacher training, and funding salaries of additional teachers to improve teacher-student ratios.
Awarding 244 vocational training scholarships for secondary school leavers allowing them to continue their studies.
Acting as primary funder and anchor sponsor of over 20,000 km² of protected wilderness areas.
Support funding for a network of community-owned Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) spanning more than 1.2 million acres of land, benefiting over 500,000 people.
Invested in a portfolio of innovative pilot projects to regenerate degraded land, support rural farmers and create nature-positive livelihoods for local communities.
From our beginnings, sustainability has been the foundation of who we are. Our vision has always been rooted in respect for the land, its people, and wildlife. That conviction has guided us ever since, shaping how we design our camps, source our materials, and welcome our guests into some of Africa’s most fragile ecosystems.
Within our operations, we advanced practical sustainability in our camps and lodges, and within our supply chain. Solar provided 81% of camp energy up from 75% last year while plastic waste dropped by 26% on last year to 0.14 kg per bednight. We’ve continued to invest in our sustainability reporting which is carefully tracked so we can keep improving.
These results reflect our long-term commitment to protecting wilderness ecosystems, expanding opportunity and ensuring travel delivers measurable benefits for people and nature. For further detail, please see the full Impact & Sustainability Report 2024/25.