Richard Hammond is a freelance travel journalist who first saw the benefits of genuine ecotourism while visiting the Indian Ocean island of Rodrigues in 1993. Since then he has visited and reported on hundreds of clean breaks for travel magazines and newspapers, principally as The Guardian's eco-travel correspondent and as the founder of www.greentraveller.co.uk, an online guide to low-impact travel worldwide. Richard is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and lives in London, a short bike ride from St Pancras International train station.