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Methodology · a living document
One promise holds the whole site up: if we couldn't verify the work, it isn't here. This page is how that promise is kept — and how the keeping keeps improving.
No operator writes themselves in. Names enter through public evidence, and every step between a registry and the field journal is recorded:
When this site hands a traveler to an operator, the hand-off itself is counted in an outbound ledger — who was sent, from which page, to which door. That ledger is how we can show operators real numbers, and how you can hold our recommendations to account.
Some outbound links may become paid partnerships. Counting never affects who is listed — vetting does. We are not a certification body; we read public evidence, weigh it in the open, and say so when we can't verify something.
Checking travel honestly is young work. As better practices prove themselves, this method absorbs them — and every absorption is dated here.
seeing a practice we should absorb? — write to us. this line is reserved for it.
The outbound ledger. Every traveler handed to an operator is now counted, page to door, so recommendations are auditable — and disclosed.
The flight leg absorbed. Airlines joined the impact ledger, read live from the shared entity hub, with the carriers actually attempting something named and sourced.
Imagery held to the same bar. Photographs license-verified and credited where they appear; generated imagery always disclosed, never presented as documentary.
Protected Planet joined discovery. Operator names now also surface from the UN-backed World Database on Protected Areas, alongside sweeps of five certification registries.