O’REILLY’S has announced a global partnership with Malaysian eco-lodge, Sukau Rainforest Lodge promoting sustainable tourism.
The Global Eco Lodge (GEL) initiative will promote eco accredited travel accommodation and connect with the growing sustainable tourism audience worldwide.

O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat Managing Director Shane O’Reilly, believes the partnership will make sustainable tourism more accessible for nature lovers.

“Our aim is to cross-promote our properties and grow the opportunities for our loyal guests to enjoy eco-friendly tourism worldwide”, Mr. O’Reilly said. “Guests are looking for unique and eco-friendly nature-based experiences, like birdwatching and bushwalking, that have low impact on our environment”.

O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat is in World Heritage Listed Lamington National Park and ancient Gondwana Rainforest. Sukau Rainforest Lodge is set on the banks of the Kinabatangan River, one of Borneo's most important wildlife sanctuary in Sabah, Malaysia.
Sukau Rainforest Lodge’s owner and Sabah ecotourism pioneer, Albert Teo, believes GEL will help promote more eco-friendly travel.

“It is important that we create awareness for sustainable tourism and provide options for the growing number of environmentally conscious travellers”, Mr Teo said. “GEL will start with O’Reilly’s and Sukau Rainforest Lodge but we will be reaching out to other eco-accredited accommodation to join the initiative”.

The GEL website containing eco-accredited accommodation will be finalised in 2019.
Tourism members must have a minimum of 5 years eco-accreditation and be privately owned to join the initiative.

 

Nature lovers and eco-conscious travellers can find out more about GEL by emailing travel@gel.com.au to receive special accommodation rates and specials.

Last year in 2018, one of our in-house activities was conducting river clean-ups along the Kinabatangan River. Our lodge team call themselves the River Warriors, and have truly earned the name! They're always doing an amazing job every time they go out to collect rubbish found in the river and its shores.

However, they don’t always wait for the group activity to do the river clean-up. Often, our boatmen and guides will collect the rubbish even when they’re on tour with guests, whom also participate in the clean-up at times.

Meet the River Warriors and their bags of trash! Taken last year in October (2018)

The river clean-up activity was done twice, October and December of last year. And in total, the team collected 48.92KG of rubbish in those two months! This month, we also conducted another one and collected about 70KG!

Of course it’s nothing to be proud of when your river is polluted by waste and rubbish, but playing a part in caring for our home and environment here does make us feel good inside.

During our recent river clean up

The team in action

We just hope that others will also follow suit in caring for Kinabatangan, especially the communities here. It’s not easy, but we’re trying to bring about more awareness about the horrors of pollution.  We're also working towards educating communities about the importance of preserving and caring for the environment.

Working with the school children and youths of Sukau, Kinabatangan is one of the things we plan to do soon for our river clean-ups. And these clean-ups will now be doing on a monthly basis. We’re excited for this collaboration and hope that by starting with the young ones, we will be able to make a bigger and more positive impact here.

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