Nat Hab Celebrates Women’s History with New Adventure Series: Women in the Wild
Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories Every year, March is designated Women’s History Month by presidential proclamation to reflect on the often-overl...
Chasing Butterflies: A Memoir of El Rosario
By Mac Mirabile, Senior Director of Analytics at World Wildlife Fund A solitary monarch butterfly flutters along a dusty path leading our group of eager ec...
Privately Caring for Rhinos and Publicly Tolerating Tigers
Often, the numbers seem to look bad for African rhinos. Right now, the statistics show that these animals are rapidly declining in core, state-run reserves, ...
Nat Hab’s Australia and New Zealand Adventure Director Runs Trips and Races
Talk about a life of adventure. As a child, Nat Hab adventure director Emily Kleinburd immersed herself in wildlife encyclopedias, devoured nature documentar...
Salmon-Fed Flowers, Sockeye-Rich Shores and Self-Aware Fish
Although sometimes heart-wrenching to discover on our nature outings, the animal carcasses that we may come across play an important role in the functioning ...
Trailing Tigers in an Indian Wildlife Sanctuary
By Erin Waite, Senior Editorial Specialist, WWF-US The air was dry and still, offering little respite against the sweltering summer heat. “Chalo, cha...
Meet the Pioneering Women Changing the Face of the African Safari Industry
When I reflect on my first gorilla trek in Rwanda, I can’t imagine it without my incredible female guide, Jolie Mukiza, and my porter, Odette Uwineza. As M...
Eight Quirky Ways That Animals Communicate
We know that only a small percentage of what we understand comes from words. Tone, body language and rhythm all come together to help communicate a message, ...
Video: Octopus Fling
Octopuses are the weirdly wonderful ocean animals who have blue blood, changeable colors and the ability to use tools. However, they’re probably most famou...
15 Nature, Wildlife, Conservation and Travel Podcasts to Listen to Today
Welcome to the wonderful world of podcasts! Especially ones that deal with nature, wildlife, conservation and travel—all topics we care dearly about. There...
Wildlife of Patagonia: Pumas, Penguins and More
Peerless Patagonia is striking in grandeur, yet humble in character. As Andean spires rise to the sky, glaciers wind their way down to turquoise lakes dotted...
Act Now to Witness the Wonder of Polar Bears in Churchill
With International Polar Bear Day on February 27, we’re drawing attention to the King of the Arctic’s plight in a warming world. A global leader ...
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Wildlife Crime Technology: Nowhere to Hide
A growing problem Over the last decade, an estimated $23 billion global black market economy for illegal wildlife products has emerged, accelerating the prob...
Project “Paraiso Quetzal” – Where Conservation Meets Development
Costa Rica is known for its natural beauty, advancements in sustainability and conservation, and vast wildlife viewing opportunities. While all these things ...
The Singing Lemurs of Madagascar
Often referred to as the “eighth continent,” the island nation of Madagascar has developed its own distinct ecosystems and extraordinary wildlife...
The EPA Blocks Pebble Mine: Bristol Bay and Its Bears Are Saved!
The 13-year battle for Bristol Bay reached a triumphant culmination on January 30, 2023. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invoked its Clean Water Act...
Roads: The Winter and Wildlife Kind
Travel is back. And it’s back in a big way. Following the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, flying is rebounding. But road trips remain one of the most popular fo...
Beavers: How Nature’s Engineers Are Making a Comeback
The beaver is the largest rodent in North America (and the second-largest in the world after South America’s capybara). They are found in ponds, lakes, riv...
Protecting Mountain Lions Before They Become an Endangered Species
Los Angeles recently celebrated the life of a very famous and dearly loved personality: “Hollywood Cat” P-22 (Puma No. 22). The sole mountain lion to mak...
9 New Animal Species to Celebrate in the New Year
Despite the challenges today’s world faces, Planet Earth is the gift that keeps on giving. That’s good news for scientists who relish the rush of discove...
Helen Freeman: The “Jane Goodall” of Snow Leopards
Conjuring the Spirit of the Himalaya Ghost Cat “Love at first sight,” is how conservationist Helen Freeman described meeting a pair of Earth’s rarest c...
13 Conservation Success Stories of 2022
Wildfires. Global warming. Floods. Pollution. Mass extinctions. With the 24-hour news cycle constantly spouting negative headlines about the state of the pla...
100 Years of Snow Leopard Research
The snow leopard has captured the interest of wildlife biologists, conservationists and the communities around northern and central Asia’s high mountai...
Nat Hab Unwrapped: The True Value of Nature Travel
I have often used terms like “natural treasure” or “ecological gem” in my writing when talking about the value of our planet’s rivers, oceans, gras...
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