Ziptrek has rapidly become a major part of the local community and we endeavour to be leaders and role models. We strive to be the best employer to our guides and other staff. We provide medical plans, great wages, 4 day work weeks, and no limit on annual vacation time. We are thrilled to be able to provide so many people with so much full time work based on the forest all without consuming any of the community’s natural resources.  These are all truly sustainable jobs.

If charities, schools or festivals ever need donations of money or free passes for raffles we are always happy to provide them.

We are the only business to ever have approached the Municipal Sustainability Coordinator to ask to work together to teach visitors to the community about the remarkable things being done. We are now in active partnerships with the Resort Municipality of Whistler and Whistler–Blackcomb to educate each and every guest about the community’s adoption of the Natural Step – a scientific framework for sustainability to which Ziptrek adheres as well.

We are the only ecotourism company partnered with a major renewable energy hardware leader to teach visitors about renewable energy.

Our definition of community does not end in BC however. Every year we support other members of our global community who are having a much harder time than us. Through groups like Doctors Without Borders, Pediatric Aids Africa and the United Nations we try to help.

We also support organizations that are traditionally under funded but do vital work to understand, preserve and teach about the world’s disappearing ecosystems and species. To that end we support groups like Global Forest Science, Green Kids, and the David Suzuki Foundation.

Through walking, zipping, using quiet hybrid vehicles, producing our own power, not using chemicals to treat our wood, and by planting hundreds of trees annually we protect the local community residents from pollutants while creating fun, sustainable jobs teaching visitors about how we livein our rainforest.