Social Trekking

Social Trekking is a new concept in environmental awareness efforts, wherein tour operators and organizations committed to environmental conservation organize 'green-treks' to encourage people to recover and bring back garbage from environmentally sensitive glacier regions[1]. Social treks are part of 'low impact tourism' efforts[2][3], designed with the aim of minimizing the carbon footprint of the event, while also recovering and bringing back any garbage found on the way and/or at the destination, usually situated in ecologically sensitive far flung hilly areas, where local municipal committees fail to ensure proper garbage recovery.

References
  1. "Trekking-Tourism Grows Significantly In Kashmir". presstrustofkashmir.com. 2017-08-31. Archived from the original on 2017-09-01. Retrieved 2017-09-04.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  2. "Mustaq Pahalgami flags off second batch of trekers". www.knskashmir.com. 2017-09-10. Archived from the original on 2017-09-10. Retrieved 2017-09-10.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  3. "Himalayan Welfare Organization flags off second batch of trekers". scoopnews.in. 2017-09-10. Archived from the original on 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2017-09-14.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
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