Responsible Tourism
Keep your distance, keep it quiet, come back.
Wildlife tourism only works long-term if the wildlife and the communities living alongside it are still there to visit next year. This page is the practical version of that idea, not a lecture.
Wildlife Ethics
On safari
Distance
We don't ask drivers to approach wildlife closer than the reserve's guidelines allow, including at a strong sighting. This isn't negotiable, including when a guest asks for it.
No feeding, no calling out
Animals aren't fed, baited, or called to for a better view or photograph.
Noise discipline
Low voices, phones on silent, no calling out at a sighting — for the animals' sake and for other vehicles' sightings too.
Responsible photography
No flash on wildlife, no leaving the vehicle in core zones, no pursuing an animal that's moving away. See Wildlife Photography for how this shapes our approach.
Local communities
The villages in Sariska's buffer zone were here before tourism and will be here after it. Any visit to a village or interaction with local communities should be respectful and on their terms, not staged for guests.
Practical
What you can do
Reduce plastic
Carry a refillable water bottle where possible; avoid single-use plastic inside the reserve.
Support local livelihoods
Where genuine opportunities exist to buy locally or support community-run services, we'll point them out rather than default to outside vendors.
Follow your guide's call
If a guide says to end a sighting early or hold back, that's a wildlife-welfare decision, not caution for its own sake.