Laura Kiniry is an award-winning journalist specializing in nature, travel, and the outdoors. When she’s not out traversing Norway’s southern fjords or tracking elephants on foot in Ghana, you can find her at home in San Francisco, CA, writing about her adventures and rediscovering her own backyard. Her articles have ranged from What We Can Learn From the Sámi Tradition of Reading Snow to going On the Job with Japan’s Legendary Female Ama Divers.
Kiniry contributes regularly to such publications as Smithsonianmag.com, Atlas Obscura, BBC Travel, and Conde Nast Traveler, as well as several AAA outlets. She’s visited six continents (and counting!), spent one of her favorite summers to date working in Montana’s Glacier National Park, and embarked on a six-month backpacking journey through New Zealand, Australia, and Thailand. Occasionally she harvests olives in Italy.
On a late May day in 2020, a rare sighting occurred. For the first time in nearly 50 years, California condors had landed within Sequoia National Park, along...
We spotted him during an early morning game drive through South Africa’s Madikwe Reserve: a male lion resting within the grasslands, his thick mane touching...
Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is one of Earth’s oldest and most biologically diverse forests. It’s also home to half of the world’s population of...
At least a dozen elephants stood on a hillside amid Aberdare National Park’s dense greenery, a few bathing themselves in water from a nearby fall while the...
On the day before our 200-passenger ship was set to arrive in Antarctica’s Marguerite Bay, the onboard Discovery Team performed a mandatory clothing check of...
A few weeks ago, I found myself standing on the rocky beach of D'Hainaut Island, within Antarctica’s Mikkelsen Harbour, watching a couple of Gentoo penguins...
One of today’s best-known “superfoods,” quinoa has been a crop within South America’s indigenous rural communities for thousands of years. Pre-Columbian...
More than a dozen conservation travel milestones are highlighted in Nat Hab’s 2023 Sustainability Report, an inaugural publication bringing together nearly 40...
The summer that I worked in Montana’s Glacier National Park was one of the best experiences of my life. For three months, I lived within the park’s Many...
When it comes to on-screen wildlife friendships, the bond between Timon and Pumbaa from Disney’s The Lion King is a classic. The wise-cracking meerkat and his...
In February 2017, residents on the Norwegian island of Sotra found a Cuvier’s beaked whale stranded on a beach in southwestern Norway. It wasn’t the first...
In 2019, an independent researcher caught sight of a tiny creature on a trail camera in Northern California’s Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve. Scientists were...
We were kayaking among patches of floating ice, penguins porpoising through the waters between us, when our guide got the call over the radio. "Who here is...
When it comes to Scottish wildlife, there’s one creature in particular that attracts more tourists than any other. ‘Nessie,’ as she’s known, is an enormous...
Around 850 CE, an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi was maintaining his livestock when together, they happened upon an unusual plant with berries. The animals...
Every year on the first day of summer, Iceland’s Horticultural School (part of the country’s agricultural university in Hveragerði) opens its doors to the...
When a group of local and government organizations got together to create a pilot portion of the Via Dinarica—a network of long-distance hiking trails...
On a recent safari trip in Malawi’s Liwonde National Park, the “Big Five” animals associated with Africa’s national parks were nowhere in sight. That’s when I...
