Beyond Green, a sustainability-focused brand of Preferred Hotel Group, celebrated World Wildlife Day on March 3 with its member hotels across the globe, making its environmentally friendly practices known to a wider audience.

Costa Christ, the brand leader, said: "Beyond Green is so much more than just a hotel brand-it is a movement and an understanding that we live on a beautiful yet fragile planet.

"Our members, as good hosts, a collection of hotels, resorts and lodges, are initially designed for and committed to sustainable travel and lifestyle from their DNA to transform travel into a force for good through their destinations, property design, operation actions, beliefs and staff. We can say Beyond Green member hotels are born to be sustainable."

Currently, all Beyond Green resorts, hotels and lodges are striving to help more than 2.4 million hectares of degraded terrestrial ecosystems around the world regenerate, which are the homes of rare and endangered wild animals. Guests are expected to recognize the importance of wildlife protection through their travels, according to the brand.

Cradled by South Africa's rugged Cederberg Mountains, Bushmans Kloof is a wilderness reserve home to more than 200 wildlife species. It has one of the world's largest herds of endangered Cape mountain zebras and works to photograph and document all zebras on the property for a studbook, a tool used to determine the reproductive success of each animal.

Together with the TreadRight Foundation, the reserve has partnered with conservation organization Cheetah Outreach to ensure local communities can protect themselves and their livestock from predators.

As a result, Anatolian Shepherd dogs have been introduced as livestock guardians.

In northern New Mexico, the United States, Vermejo, a Ted Turner Reserve, is protecting flora and fauna on its more than 2,000 square meters of land.

In particular, American bison and Rio Grande cutthroat trout are being saved from near-extinction.

Wilderness Safari DumaTau is a camp located in the private Linyanti Wildlife Reserve on the western boundary of Chobe National Park, Botswana. Guests are encouraged to report wild dog sightings, so as to help the camp further protect the animals.

In the heart of Murchison falls national park, Uganda, the Nile Safari Lodge offers views of the River Nile. Visitors to the lodge can take part in a conservation initiative called Snares-to-Wares that transforms wire snares laid to trap animals into pieces of art.

Surrounded by coral reefs, Miavana Time+Tide, an ultraluxury lodge on a private island off the northeast coast of Madagascar, is carrying out a raft of wildlife protection projects.

These include land and marine biodiversity research, sea turtles nesting monitoring and crowned lemurs translocation.