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.
The roads in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, can reach peak capacity during the summer months, but it's not just because of vehicular traffic. Each year beginning...
When naturalist and conservationist John Muir first happened upon California's Yosemite Valley in 1868, it was love at first sight. He was taken with its...
I’d been on Kangaroo Island for less than an hour when I spotted my first bit of wildlife: a koala perched high in the branches of a blue-gum eucalyptus tree....
On my first visit to Africa in 2012, I spent a few days safariing through Kenya’s breathtaking Maasai Mara. The sheer breadth of wildlife blew me away. There...
South Africa's Cape Town is a place unlike any other. Perched along the waters of the continent's southwest coast, this port city is a multicultural...
In 1960, English primatologist Jane Goodall made her first trek into what was then the little-known world of wild chimpanzees. Traveling to what’s now...
In January 2020, eastern Australia was in peril. Devastating bushfires had been sweeping through much of the region for the last few months, escalated by...
In New Zealand, Māori legends that tell the tales of how the landscape came to be abound. One such story describes a giant supernatural creature whose body...
It was August 1804 when the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the eastern edge of the Great Plains. What lay before them was a broad expanse of North...
One of my favorite travel memories was an evening in Kenya’s Masai Mara. Our group had just finished up a day of safaris when we pulled over to a spot in the...
It’s during the early daylight hours when Glacier National Park’s Many Glacier Valley is at its finest. The dramatic peaks of the Lewis Mountain Range take on...
In the heart of one of Africa's last great wildernesses, a rare and extraordinary experience awaits. Damaraland, a remote and untamed landscape tucked away in...
When I was a kid, my mom took our family to see Disney’s Pete’s Dragon, a musical fantasy film that featured a large green animated dragon named Elliott who...
It’s a typical spring afternoon in Montana’s Glacier National Park, and the wildlife is buzzing. Grizzly and black bears have awoken from their winter slumber...
On an early morning in southern Chile's rugged Laguna San Rafael National Park, a Netflix series film crew caught a rare and unusual sight: a kodkod wandering...
The bond between a polar bear sow and her cubs is extraordinary. This month, viewers can experience the remarkable relationship up-close with Disneynature’s...
The salty waters of Quebec's St. Lawrence River estuary have long been a major gathering spot for whales—many arrive each spring to feed on a rich body of...
