Mount Olympus National Park, Greece
Conservation Tourism
Bird of the Day: Indian Roller
Bird of the Day: Yellow-throated Toucan
Costa Rica
Bird of the Day: Snowy Egret
With Rewilding, Markets Are Not Everything, But Are A Key Ingredient
Places can have a particular taste, maybe one that is even iconic, and coffee was the obvious tool in our taste of place toolkit for decades. When it came time to focus on these products as our primary work we drew on some earlier experiments.
One was with honey and the other was with wine. All that was long before coming home to Costa Rica to launch Organikos.

Lunch provided with products from the Wild Côa Network during the ERN-EYR event in the Greater Côa Valley. The Wild Côa Network, which now comprises over 50 members, is driving the development of nature-based enterprise in and around Portugal’s Greater Côa Valley. NELLEKE DE WEERD
We are about to introduce two new products, and one has a story that mixes conservation and rewilding. So, in this story that follows we sense something akin to the Organikos products in our Authentica shops:
Nature-based business networks take off across Rewilding Europe landscapes
Helping nature heal can lead to prosperous local economies. Nature-based business networks are being developed in a growing number of our rewilding landscapes, enabling businesses and communities to benefit from nature recovery in a sustainable way. This, in turn, is generating more support for rewilding.
The network effect
Today, nature-based business networks are a growing feature of Rewilding Europe’s expanding portfolio of rewilding landscapes. These bring businesses together under a shared rewilding vision for the landscape, facilitating the creation of new tourism packages, helping to close gaps in tourism experiences, and creating new economic opportunities. Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Barred Antshrike
Bird of the Day: Long-eared Owl
Seewinkel National Park, Austria
Bird of the Day: Coal Tit
Bird of the Day: Great Kiskadee
Bird of the Day: Double-banded Sandgrouse
Namibia
Bird of the Day: Streak-throated Woodpecker
Bird of the Day: Common Firecrest
Bird of the Day: Keel-billed Toucan
The Market For Travel Books
A reminder of the reasons for travel writing‘s staying power:
Why travel guidebooks are not going anywhere
Despite predictions that the internet would kill them
They declared that it was dead—or, if it wasn’t dead yet, it soon would be. The cause of the malady was viral: first blogs, then influencers on Instagram and TikTok. Continue reading
Paul Theroux, Still Indulging
During the first few months of this platform, when travel experiences as well as variations on biophilia and conservation became our prevailing themes, a post mentioned one of the great travel writers of our time. 13 years passed and this is his first full reference:
Paul Theroux on Necessary Solitude, Risks and the Joy of Writing
After 60 years of writing and publishing — and almost 60 books — I feel ordering my thoughts on paper to be not a job but a process of my life. You always hear writers complain about the hellish difficulty of writing, but it’s a dishonest complaint.
So many people have it much harder — soldiers, firefighters, field workers, truckers. The writer’s profession is a life of self-indulgence. Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Fischer’s Sparrow-Lark
Bird of the Day: Southern Red-billed Hornbill
Namibia
Bird of the Day: Wine-throated Hummingbird
Bird of the Day: Black-and-white Owl
Guatemala



















