About Go Ape

Environmentally friendly

We try hard to be an environmentally friendly company. Our sites are located in some of the UK’s most valuable and beautiful environments and we take our responsibility to care for these areas very seriously.

The courses are friendly to wildlife. The wood peel we use in our zip line landing sites creates habitats for small creatures – although, don’t remind our Alice Holt staff, who had to relocate a snake one day! At most sites we’ve set up bat boxes to create habitats (don’t ask where they are – it’s a secret), and the undersides of our platforms have provided the perfect shelter for nesting swallows and other unperturbed birds.

Our courses are designed to minimise impact on trees. Nothing is bolted into trees – we use clever braces that grip trunks and our platforms rest on these. The magic of the system is that we can loosen the brace as the tree grows. Our trees are inspected annually by an independent aboriculturalist to ensure their health.

You’ll find our sites are free of litter. We take pride in our little area of the forest.

If you’ve been to Go Ape, you may have noticed our forest educational boards, strategically dotted around each course. These boards, which we commissioned from the Global Canopy Programme, are designed to help raise awareness of the importance of protecting the world’s great forest.

We also work closely with the Gorilla Organisation. Last year, 108 Go Ape staff and customers took part in the Great Gorilla Run, and together raised over £35,000.

We know there’s always more we can do. We’re looking at ways to make our cabins more eco-friendly (although wind turbines and solar panels don’t always work in our forest locations!). However, we’re looking to improve where we can, so if you have any ideas, please let us know.