Founder, Consultant and Scientist at Sustain Ecotourism and Environmental - Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Sustain is a consulting services company based in Cape Town, South Africa, with expertise and extensive experience in the ecotourism, environmental management and agricultural consulting sectors. The company was founded in 2010, and is owned and managed by Michael Wright and his good wife, Natalie Wright. Michael possesses over 17 years of valuable consulting experience from providing ecotourism and environmental management services to a multitude of greenfields and brownfields projects throughout Southern African. Natalie possesses 24 years of valuable business experience from managing the finances and offices of several companies.Sustain seeks to offer passion, expertise, excellence and honesty to every project. We love to provide solutions to projects that enhance ecotourism potential and/or offer optimal environmental outcomes, and believe in pursuing sustainable and responsible development and operations. We are also able to work in remote locations in sub-Saharan Africa and overcome most logistical challenges.Our offices are in Durban, South Africa, and the company manages a range of environmental projects across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Sustain currently holds a Level 4 B-BBEE certification and is a B-BBEE Exempted Micro Enterprise in South Africa.At Sustain we believe and understand that achieving biodiversity preservation and expansion in a global environment that is increasingly under developmental and utilisation pressures, requires sustainable and responsible developments and operations that provide socio-economic benefits and environmental education.In essence, we care about creating a biodiversity economy that provides real returns in the following four areas: the Return of Virtue and Inspiration, the Return of Natural Capital, the Return of Social Capital, and the Return of Financial Capital. These returns need to be realized in the following two zones: the Natural Zone and the Socio-economic Zone.