Trail Keepers · the Earth Trails community
Travel. Restore. Remember.
Earth Trails doesn’t end when you fly home. Trail Keepers are the travellers, miners, guides, rangers and descendants who keep the trail alive — sharing finds, following their tree, logging wildlife and choosing where we go next.
What Trail Keepers do
Six ways to belong.
Share your findsPost your stone or nugget with its ESMI XRF result. Find of the week gets a kolintang shout-out.
Log wildlifeYour sightings go to iNaturalist and the Tangkoko researchers. No flash, always with a ranger.Follow your treeEvery guest plants a native tree. You get a GPS point and a photo update every quarter.
Honour the OpoFamilies with Minahasa roots share stories, photos and archive finds — with respect, guided by local elders.
Mapalus weekendsTwice a year we plant, clean rivers and camp together with the villages. Free for Trail Keepers.
Shape the storiesTell the holograms what you think; they ask you too. The best questions become new tour chapters.Live from the trail
This week
Spectral tarsier at 17:42Min-ji K. · Seoul · Tangkoko · ❤ 214
Au 21,300 ppm — our best find!Tom & Jip · Utrecht · Gold belt · ❤ 168
Best fish of my life, BangaSarah L. · Melbourne · ❤ 97
My Cempaka is 34 cm tall 🌱Anna de V. · Amsterdam · ❤ 251
Demo posts. Live feed in the Earth Trails app.
Trail Keepers together
2,814members in 31 countries
12,480trees planted
3,920wildlife sightings logged
0 gmercury on our sites
Ambassadors
Yohanes · guide, Airmadidi
Ibu Maria · miner, North Minahasa
Pak Ronny · history guide, Tompaso
Yohanes · guide, AirmadidiIbu Maria · miner, North MinahasaPak Ronny · history guide, TompasoDemo figures and names.
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Where should the next trail be?
Every Earth Trail follows the same promise: a local gold belt, a miners’ cooperative, real stones, the people of the past — and 10% back to the land. Vote, and we’ll tell you first when it opens.
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Become a Trail Keeper
Free. A monthly letter from the trail, your tree updates, Mapalus invitations and first access to new trails.
Or join on WhatsAppOur community promise
- We honour the Opo: no selfies on tombs, no taking stones from heritage sites.
- We protect wildlife: no feeding, no flash, report snares.
- We never sell gold or protected species — finds are memories, not trade.
- We share villagers’ photos only with their consent.
- Torang samua basudara — respect everyone, in every language.