HORIZONS OF HOPE

Community & Conservation

ELYSIAN is dedicated to restoring the land and nature to what it once was; to envisioning a future of ecological rehabilitation and renewal in Africa. For centuries, some of Africa’s most diverse and unique landscapes have been decimated by deforestation, farming, poor land management, species loss, and the erosion of natural habitats.

Diverse, fecund wild spaces that once hosted rich and living biomes now stand compromised, depleted and barren. The inhabitants, wild animals and local indigenous communities, are accordingly compromised and hang in the balance. We aim to restore the natural balance through a committed, long-term conservation and community vision.

COMMUNITY AND CONSERVATION

A REWILDING OF AFRICA’S LIVING LANDSCAPE.

Our values are instilled in our intentions and actions, those being to make a meaningful impact.
 
Our promise is to support local indigenous communities in the areas in which we operate, such as the indigenous Bushmen communities of northern Botswana. To always instil in our guests, staff and stakeholders a deep and enduring respect for and appreciation of the land we operate in, the heritage of these places; the people and wild animals of these places. Ultimately to share and encourage a passion for the place, people, flora and fauna of our chosen areas and for welcoming people to these special places.
 
Hosting you, our guests, in these wilderness areas alongside which co-exist remote, marginalised communities, augments extraordinary value to the conservation efforts in these areas. Providing you with a transformative experience in these challenging destinations allows you to become a stakeholder and participant in the entire conservation ecology and process.
 
In the face of the global degradation of our natural wilderness areas, urgent action is needed. 
 
ELYSIAN’s mission is to make an active and meaningful contribution to the preservation and rebirth of Africa living landscapes. 
 
Our investment in Africa’s wild places will not only help nature heal itself, as it will the local communities who lie at the heart of our vision. By applying our capital and processes to ensure the protection of large tracts of wildland and its natural flora and fauna, and to restore once thriving natural habitats, everyone stands to gain. 
 
To this end, ELYSIAN has developed a series of business models and processes which are designed to contribute directly to the women and youth of these peripheral indigenous communities to ensure that nature indeed can, and will, pay her way.
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JOURNEYS - BOTSWANA