Sustainability at Berkeley River Lodge

Berkeley River Lodge acknowledges the Balanggarra people as the Traditional Owners of the land, sea, air and rivers we are privileged to experience. Balanggarra custodians have nurtured this Country for more than 60,000 years.

There are no roads here. Everything we use arrives by air or by sea, and everything we cannot use has to leave the same way. That single fact shapes how we operate.

Being off-grid means we generate our own power and draw our own water, from a bore beneath the Kimberley sands that filters it naturally. It also means we count what we use. In June 2026 we completed our first full greenhouse gas inventory through Carbon Halo: 305.2 tonnes, published openly on a public dashboard alongside every commitment we have made to bring it down.

Some of that work you will notice. Villas have never held fridges; each has a Fieldbar Drinks Box filled at the lodge bar. Your water bottle is handed to you in Darwin before you board, which keeps around 800 single-use plastic bottles off the property each season. Our sunscreen is reef and freshwater safe and made in Western Australia, so the waterholes you swim in stay as you found them. Glass is crushed on site into fine sand. Cans and bottles travel to Wyndham, with the proceeds going to the Kununurra Waringarri Aboriginal Corporation.

Some of it you will never see. On the beaches below the dunes we monitor flatback turtle nests, recording tracks, covering fresh nests and logging what the dingoes take.

And some of it is unfinished. Cyclone Fina took our solar room in November 2025, and restoring it in full is our highest environmental priority for 2027.

Leaving minimal trace and lasting memories is fundamental to the barefoot luxury of a stay at Berkeley River Lodge.

Read our full Sustainability Plan 2026–2030