Africa Stories

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Botswana’s Changing Lands: Elephants Not to Blame

The African nation of Botswana is believed to have the world’s largest population of wild elephants. While the exact number is hard to pinpoint, estimates are...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Nature’s Force in Full View at Victoria Falls

Nature is powerful. It exists by the rules that it alone sets, and it progresses on its own trajectory. Its force is far stronger than we are. The coronavirus...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Elephant Poaching in the Pandemic

You probably already know the perilous position that the world’s elephants are currently negotiating. The International Union for Conservation of Nature...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Madagascar’s Dwindling Forests and Their Linked Lemurs

Imagine that you are lactose intolerant, and then you discover that all of the grocery stores in your vicinity sell only dairy products. That’s how a Duke...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Kenya’s Cattle Ranchers Conserve Wild Hartebeests—and Lion Predators

Hartebeests—the narrow-faced, savanna-adapted and unusual-looking African antelope that are native to more than 25 African countries—are on a downhill...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Africa Through the Eyes of My Children

Over my 20 years at Nat Hab, I’ve had the great luxury of traveling to a wide variety of our nature destinations around the world. Travel is my greatest...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Comfort Food for Quarantine—7 Soup & Stew Recipes from Our Botswana Safaris

On any Nat Hab trip, it's the charismatic wildlife and breathtaking vistas that take center stage, but there's something else our travelers frequently come...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Elephants and Lions Align Against Rhinos

The term Africa’s Big Five means something quite different today than it did when it was coined in the late 1800s during the continent’s colonial period....

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WWF

Southern Africa Safari: An Intimate View of Predator and Prey

Most people are thrilled to go on a safari in Africa, knowing they will see the iconic wildlife they have only seen in images or in zoos all their lives....

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Natural Habitat Adventures

A Namibia Safari with Natural Habitat Adventures

I had the chance to go on a trip of a lifetime to Namibia with Natural Habitat Adventures. I had seen photos of the amazing Namibian landscapes and was very...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The New Mini Frogs of Madagascar

More than 350 types of frogs live in Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. The nation stretches across 226,917...

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Emily Goodheart

Mountain Gorilla Numbers on the Rise

Good news for mountain gorillas—these great apes are growing in numbers, thanks in dual part to incredible conservation efforts on behalf of our partner World...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Namibia’s Dunes and Desert-Adapted Wildlife

Namibia is otherworldly, a land of endless dunes and rare desert-adapted wildlife. Many long to travel to this remote region, and with good reason. Brad...

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Emily Goodheart

Traveling to Victoria Falls—5 Facts to Know Before You Go    

Victoria Falls is the Eden of Africa. David Livingstone, a Scottish explorer who came upon these cascading waters in 1885, wrote that he was struck by "scenes...

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Emily Goodheart

New Study Shows Wildlife Tourism Worth Five Times More Than Poaching

Recent research has revealed that wildlife tourism is five times more lucrative than poaching. In 2018, it was found that while the illegal wildlife trade...

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Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: King of the Savannah

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a portrait of a lion in South Africa....

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Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Whale Feasting on Sardines

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a photo of a Bryde's whale. Photographer...

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Emily Goodheart

Ethiopia Plants 350 Million Trees in a Day: Shatters World Record

In just 12 hours, Ethiopia planted 353,633,660 trees, shattering the previous world record for trees planted in a single day. The two most recent records were...

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