Asia & The Pacific

147 stories

  • Baby Animals in the Wild: Growing Up in India, Nepal and Bhutan

    Dec 31, 2025 · Megan Brief

    From the moment they enter the world, Asia’s largest mammals and fiercest predators begin life at their most vulnerable. Whether it’s a newborn elephant learning to control its trunk, a young rhino navigating grasslands with limited sight or a tiger cub relying entirely on its mother’s protection, these early months shape survival.

  • Seeds of Hope: Nat Hab Philanthropy in Action from Australia to Uganda

    Nov 25, 2025 · Emily Goodheart

    Each year Nat Hab Philanthropy supports grassroots initiatives that connect conservation with community well-being. In 2025, our first funding cycle of grants spanned continents—from the rainforests of Australia to the highlands of East Greenland—funding projects that restore habitats, advance education, empower women, and strengthen local stewardship.

  • Meet Mongolia’s Kazakh Altai and Mongol Steppe Herding Cultures

    Oct 10, 2025 · Rebecca Self

    For over 5,000 years, mobile herding families have shaped the land we now call Mongolia—reading sky and grass, moving seasonally with livestock and living in portable gers (yurts) designed for the wind, cold and heat they face on vast grasslands, high mountain ranges and the Gobi desert.

  • Journey Across Mongolia: From Steppe to Desert and Mountains

    Oct 7, 2025 · Rebecca Self

    Few places deliver such dramatic contrasts in a single journey as Mongolia. From the vast openness of the steppe, where wild horses graze beneath endless skies, to the stark rock formations of the Gobi and the snowcapped peaks of the Altai, Mongolia is a land of shifting horizons.

  • 10 Unique Species You Can See in Southern Australia

    Sep 17, 2025 · Emily Goodheart

    Australia’s southern coast is home to an array of intriguing wildlife. The fascinating animals found here are specially adapted for their environment, their unique traits and behaviors a result of 30 million years of geographical isolation.

  • Photographic Wonders of China’s Four Sisters Mountain & Siguniangshan National Park

    Aug 27, 2025 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    By Nat Hab Expedition Leader Eddy Savage One of the most striking aspects of the mountains leading up to the Tibetan Plateau is just how huge they are. On our Wild Side of China Photo Expedition, we journey through the Qionglai Mountain range, west of Chengdu, and find ourselves in the foothills of the Himalayas.

  • Sustainability Champions: Inside Nepal’s Award-Winning Kopila Valley School

    Aug 22, 2025 · Rebecca Self

    This is a story about sustainable community development, conservation education and the power we each have to make a difference. For me, it’s about a lot more than that, too. I’m a former journalism professor, but I’m not even going to attempt objectivity here; this is advocacy, pure and simple.