Discover our projects
Together with our outdoors partners and our customers, we have been working together for years to protect all those beautiful, wild places, both in Belgium and abroad. Because the fact that we like to be active outside also means that we have an impact on our environment. But don’t we all want future generations to have the same or better adventures than we do?
We are proud that we can make a difference together with you. So we’d also like to extend a big thank you to all of you for your support, including on behalf of the outdoors partners and projects we support.
“We believe in our contribution and act on it”
Partners of A.S.Adventure
Together with our outdoors partners and projects, we are working towards increasing nature and wild places in Belgium, Europe, and the rest of the world. Our financial support goes directly to their initiatives to protect and maintain our planet. Time for an introduction.
National
Natuurpunt: standing strong together since 1998
Every day, enthusiastic volunteers devote themselves to protecting and improving the diversity and quality of the nature in your neighbourhood.
What we have already achieved together:
• In 2022, A.S.Adventure donated 5% of the Black Friday turnover to the preservation of the highest nature reserves in Belgium
• In 2022, we also fully committed to restoring the Middenloop Zwalm glaucous oat grassland. We want to preserve biodiversity and improve CO2 storage and water buffering.
• 27,000 hectares of nature reserve in Flanders, also thanks to the collaboration with A.S.Adventure
• Signs for 11 A.S.Adventure hiking routes
• Installation of benches, information boards, and beehives
• Construction of a natural playground in the Grote Netewoud (Grote Nete Forest)
• Publishing the Natuurpunt cycling and hiking guide
• Expedition Natuurpunt partner
As from 2023, we will focus on:
• Restoration of the Middenloop Zwalm tall oat grassland. We want to preserve biodiversity and improve CO2 storage and water buffering.
• Restoring a characteristic Kempen landscape: Visbeekvallei ('Visbeek Valley').
Visbeekvallei is one of Flanders' most valuable stream valleys with purple heather, wide sandy paths and flowery grasslands. In wetter places, you will find fens, carr vegetation, and thickets of bog myrtle. Considerable progress has already been made in Visbeekvallei thanks to the LIFE project (2010-2015). However, there is still work to be done. Natuurpunt recently purchased new plots. This is necessary to make Visbeekvallei a sustainable nature reserve that can rise to future challenges.
Right now, those plots have barely any natural value, but Natuurpunt can change that, in part thanks to our support. This will allow the heathland to flourish again, and species such as the adder will find their way to the area, while visitors will be able to enjoy beautiful walks in interconnected nature.
Natagora: on Wallonia’s green soil
Natuurpunt’s Walloon counterpart wants to stop the loss of biodiversity in Brussels and Wallonia.
We’ve accomplished this together:
• In 2022, A.S.Adventure donated 5% of the Black Friday turnover to the preservation of the highest nature reserves in Belgium.
• 5,500 hectares of nature reserves in Wallonia, thanks to the cooperation with A.S.Adventure, among others.
• From now on, we support the Nature Network, an eco-social project that gives you as a company, citizen or association the tools to welcome more biodiversity on the lands you manage.
• Additional information: as of today, we co-support the 'Vallée de la Wimbe'.
European
River Cleanup: partner with a focus on clean rivers
Go Forest: rooting for the future
Let’s plan(t) the future together: that’s the mission of Go Forest. Since 2020, this Belgian company has been planting trees where they are needed the most. By promoting reforestation and agroforestry, they ensure that the right trees grow and are maintained in the right regions. Thanks to the support of A.S.Adventure, a total of over 8.064 trees have been planted, absorbing more than 1.411,20 tons of CO2 by 2024!
Trees were planted at the following locations:
444 trees in Consomma (Italy): with this project, we are partially transforming a forest with mainly coniferous trees into a more diverse, natural, deciduous forest. This has a positive effect on biodiversity and resilience to climate change.
1,800 trees in Dohan (Belgium): this reforestation project is necessary because the previous forest was completely affected by the bark beetle. The new forest is becoming more resilient due to a variety of tree species.
2,500 trees in Cunewalde (Germany): the previous forest consisted entirely of spruce trees, trees which had also been affected by the bark beetle. Here, too, our goal is to create a stable, resilient mixed forest.
Worldwide
Cool Earth: the rainforest is cool
What we achieved together:
• 60 families benefited from the nutrition pilot project in 2017
• We installed 197 water taps in 2017
• In 2018, 180 families were provided with sustainable livelihoods through cocoa cultivation and 82 families through coffee cultivation
• In total, we have provided 90% of households with a better or more stable income
• 68% of the members of the Ayompari cocoa and coffee cooperative gained more clout to improve their own income.
Read more about sustainability
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility means making the best possible choices for people and the environment. From a more conscious product range and the repair of your gear, to more eco-conscious packaging and CO2 reductions: every link in our business deserves special attention.
Sustainability certificates
Interested in making more informed choices when buying something new? Then be sure to look at a product's sustainability certificates. Online, the certificates are listed next to each product; in the shop, one of our colleagues will be happy to tell you more.
Care & Repair
The better you care for your quality gear right now, the longer it will stay in top condition! Good for you and good for the planet. Because by enjoying your gear for many years to come, we really do make a difference in reducing that infamous mountain of waste.