Here's why…

First the obvious reason… If we have the privilege of thundering around the world getting lost and stuck in gloriously tiny rickshaws then we should also do our bit to save a bit of the world at the same time.

The second reason is best expressed in the words of Adventurists founder and inventor of the Rickshaw Run Mr. Tom:

"We must save every rainforest in the world so future generations have somewhere to get stuck. Not because we’re tree hugging sandal weavers, but because the world would be shit without them. It’s not just about the carbon, the point is rainforests are indescribably excellent.

"What would have happened if David Livingstone had vanished in a supermarket car park? Morton Stanley would have found him 3 minutes later slumped in parking bay 93F surrounded by sweet wrappers and used condoms.

"No no no... We need rainforests, not just to create oxygen but to get lost in. Without rainforests, we’d live in a world with no tigers to run away from. There would be no penis gourds, no poisonous tree frogs, no Tarzan, no great apes, no David Livingstone, no Mary Kingsley, no Mungo Park.

"Fuck progress. We want the world to be covered in dark, unknown forests stretching away in an endless medley of sweat, botheration and deadly insects.

“So Adventurists, we shall fix it. We shall save them all.”

There you go. A modest goal from the chief. (Tom Morgan, and with apologies and thanks to Tom).