Eco Friendly Highlights:

Bio-diesel fuel to power the eco lodge is produced from coconuts purchased from local villagers. The Sumba Foundation, co-founded by the resort owners, constructed a bio-diesel factory at Nihiwatu as one of their many social and economic initiatives.
Nihiwatu eco lodge provides the sustainability for the project with its $10,000 a month purchases of the bio-fuel. Hundreds of families are benefitting from their selling coconuts to this project.
To offset their carbon footprint they have so far planted 64,000 Teak trees in a 12 hectare area. Waste water from the accommodation and public area is treated in small bio-mass treatment plants and then recycled to water the grass and garden areas, on the beach thousands of turtles are hatched and released each year.
Thanks to this small eco-resort and its Sumba Foundation more than 20,000 thousand Sumbanese living in 400 traditional villages now have access to clean water from 40 wells, vastly improved health due to its
5 medical clinics, and better education from the 11 schools they support. Since 2005 Nihiwatu has won all major responsible tourism awards and is is recognized as a world leader of responsible and environmental tourism.