WHO WE ARE
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History
André Safári & Tours Ltd. began its activities in 1975, when the German Christoph Hrdina bought two floating hotels at the Araguaia river (Island of Bananal in Mato Grosso) and opened his travel agency in Brasília (DF).
He worked 30 years in the capital, serving to 15 Embassies. He also organized and guided international groups of fishery, birdwatching, and ecotourism in general. The destinations of his tours were the Amazon region, the Pantanal swamps, the Plateaus, the Atlantic Forest, national parks, among others.
In the same time, in 1986, together with a group of environmentalists, Christoph created the FUNATURA – a Foundation to protect nature.
When moving to Curitiba in 2006, he noticed the difficulty of conservation NGOs in maintaining their projects, due to the lack of resources. Then he decided to combine his knowledge of nature and ecotourism with the work of the NGOs, in order to contribute to the conservation.
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Today
In partnership with conservation NGOs, we organize trips with conservationist and technical-scientific focus to private protected areas of the region of the Atlantic Forest, with the goal to help conservation through environmental education and sustainable activities in these areas.
We also seek to aid in the popularization of the conservation projects and research of those NGOs, as well as in the reception of resources for them. For that it makes available informative materials and it provides orientation in the affiliation process and support.
One of our objectives is to call the attention of entrepreneurs for the importance of the preservation of nature and for the responsibility of their enterprise with environmental issues. |
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Mission
To bring together human beings and nature in a sustainable way, helping to preserve the nature and using ecotourism as a tool to raise awareness.
Vision
To act in the area of the Atlantic Forest of Paraná State, in partnership with conservationist NGOs, and to make private companies aware of their responsibility with the environment.
Values
• To give priority to the conservation of the biodiversity and of the well-being of the human being;
• To work for the awareness raising and environmental education;
• To approximate human beings and nature in a sustainable way;
• To support NGOs in accomplishing projects of environmental conservation;
• To neutralize carbon emissions and other impacts caused by the travels and by the agency.
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