Learning to see the Big Picture: rewilding the Scottish Highlands
If you ask someone to close their eyes and picture the Scottish Highlands, they’ll almost always describe the same thing: vast, open glens and bare, windswept peaks. It’s a dramatic, iconic image. But if you look at that same landscape through the eyes of an ecologist, you see something else entirely: a landscape that is […]
The Elephants of Nairobi: What Sheldrick Wildlife Trust gets right and what we still need to talk about
Words and imagery by Dalia Militaru Visiting Sheldrick Wildlife Trust was on my list for years, not for the experience of standing close to baby elephants, though that is what most people come for, but because of what the organisation actually represents in the longer history of wildlife conservation in East Africa. When I finally […]
How Foundation Conservation Carpathia is Rewriting the Future of Travel
There is a corner of Europe where the forest still feels entirely ancient. If you walk into the Făgăraș Mountains of Romania’s Southern Carpathians, you step into a landscape of moss-covered roots, massive old-growth trees, and valleys where European bison, brown bears, and wolves roam without fences. It feels like it has stood the test […]
A Journey to the Heart of Samburu: Where Wild Landscapes and Hard Questions Collide
By Aukje, Founder of MOYO Nature Travel The Flight In: A Land of Giants and Whispers The moment the tiny plane touched down on the dusty airstrip in Kalama, I knew I was somewhere different. The air smelled of dry grass and warm earth, and the horizon stretched endlessly, dotted with acacia trees and the silhouettes […]
The Mara Edit: What we Loved, What we Learned, and How to Go the MOYO Way
Our founder, Aukje, recently returned from a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Kenya. Along the way, she met travel expert Dalia Militaru. They instantly connected over a shared passion for nature and a desire to redefine what sustainable travel actually looks like. Having documented the journey, we invited Dalia to share their collective experience. Here is her […]
Why We’re Changing the Way MOYO Works
A personal blog by Co-founder, Aukje van Gerven. At MOYO, we try to operate in one way only: with honesty, authenticity and integrity.Not as ideals on paper, but as values we return to when decisions get hard. And they do get hard. From the very beginning, MOYO was created with a simple intention: to give […]
Finding the Pause Button: Mindfulness, Nature, and the Power of Awareness
At MOYO Training Foundation, our mission is to foster a nature-positive future by connecting people and nature. We believe that true well-being is rooted in our relationship with the natural world—a connection that enables us to move from a state of constant “doing” to one of simply “being”. That is why we are thrilled to […]
The 2026 Travel Edit: Nature Positive Edition
For 2026, the mission is clear: we aren’t just visiting nature; we are part of its recovery. As the “touch grass” movement matures from a TikTok trend into a travel philosophy, the industry is shifting toward regenerative tourism—experiences that leave a destination better than it was found. From “Tick-Box” Sustainability to Radical Respect Here is […]
Travel 2 Care: Stories and Tools for Inspiring Travel with Intention
Mayte Redondo, Founder of Travel 2 Care People and Planet, is a woman on a mission: to transform the tourism sector from the ground up. With a rich background in tour operation, academia, and a timely pivot to sustainability coaching during the pandemic, Mayte launched the Travel 2 Care People and Planet magazine. The international publication, […]
Building a Nature Positive Future: Insights from Planeterra on Empowering Communities Through Tourism
At MOYO Training Foundation, our mission is clear: to transform the tourism industry into a ‘Nature Positive’ force. We believe that travel, when done right, can be a powerful catalyst for good, benefiting both people and the planet. That’s why we were thrilled to sit down with Selene Orellana, Communications Lead for Planeterra, the world’s […]