Operation Wallacea is not a charity, and is a limited company, however the reason for this is due to the model in which we organise our expeditions. As we work in a range of countries in often quite isolated rural areas, we have contracts with organisations and communities within these countries, who organise the logistic on the ground, including things like food, vehicle transfers, accommodation and infrastructure. As you can imagine, in some of these rural areas, the Opwall expeditions are a very busy period for them, so will require a large amount of pre planning and organisation from them, which means we are sending these in country partners payments prior to the season.
As charities have a lot more regulations and restrictions when it comes to income and outgoings, for us to provide the financial support to the organisations and communities we work with, we operate as a limited company. However we do have a sister charity The Wallacea Trust who lead and manage the analysis of the large scale biodiversity data we collect, work with academics to publish the findings from this research and develop conservation strategies for the areas we work in.
Although Operation Wallacea are a company, apart from paying our overheads such as UK staff salaries, any small amount of profit goes back into the projects and the communities that we work with.
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