Asia & Pacific Stories

Natural Habitat Adventures

Discover the Wilds and Wildlife of Borneo

Did you know Borneo is where we find some of the world's oldest and tallest virgin rain forests? They are some of the most biodiverse habitats on Earth,...

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Michelle Peters

6 Facts About the “Original Pandas” for International Red Panda Day

Whether you’re a red panda fan because you’ve seen them at your local zoo, or because your tween has watched Disney’s “Turning Red” movie umpteen times, you...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Travel Tale: Spotting Snow Leopards in the Sham Valley

By Senior Adventure Specialist John Holahan The morning sun crested the eastern ridge of the Sham Valley, warming the contents of its path. It peered through...

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Ruksana Hussain

10 Nature Trips to Celebrate Spring

Spring forward from so-called winter woes into a season full of possibilities! From wildflowers to wildlife, this time of year offers travelers great weather,...

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Michelle Peters

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 discovery,...

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Laura Kiniry

Top National Parks in Southern Australia: Tasmania, Kangaroo Island & the Great Ocean Road

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....

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Samantha Miller

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 mountains for...

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Lavanya Sunkara

6 Ways to Help Endangered Species on World Wildlife Conservation Day

A decade ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a call to action to raise awareness about endangered and near-extinct animals and help put an end to...

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Megan Brief

International Cheetah Day Celebrates Reintroduction in India

Cheetahs are the world’s fasted land mammals, able to accelerate from zero to 64 miles an hour in only three seconds. They are also one of the most ancient of...

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Laura Kiniry

The Sapphire Lakes of New Zealand’s South Island

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...

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Jon Jared

Go With the Glow: Bioluminescent Animals and Where to Find Them

Bioluminescence is a natural phenomenon that highlights the brilliance of the natural world—literally! Glowworms light up, fireflies flash and plankton...

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Megan Brief

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

Asian Elephant  The Asian elephant is the largest terrestrial mammal on the continent. Its size can be attributed to the gestation period, which is the...

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Michelle Peters

5 Places to Spot Leopards in the Wild

The quintessential “big cat,” the leopard is the most generalized of the Pantherines. The four others—lion, tiger, jaguar and snow leopard—are more...

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Joel Centano

Bird Watching in Borneo—A Biological Treasure Chest

Big, beautiful and brimming with life, Borneo is a “biological treasure chest,” says Court Whelan, Chief Sustainability Officer with Natural Habitat...

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Samantha Miller

The Allen Coral Atlas is the First High-Res Map of All the World’s Coral Reefs

Across the world, there are about six thousand coral species. Some species grow in warm shallow waters near coastlines, and others thrive on the dark, cold...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Spectacular Auroras of Tasmania: Legends and Lights

There may be no phenomena more magical on Earth than the aurora borealis and the aurora australis: the northern and southern lights. Although we know some of...

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Cathy Brown

Animals Are Changing Shape to Keep Cool as the Planet Warms

The planet we call home is warming faster than at any point in recorded history. As greenhouse gas emissions blanket our Earth, they trap the sun’s heat....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Studies of Extinct Ibex Could Save Today’s Tigers

The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) officially became extinct in January 2000, when a falling tree landed on Celia, the world’s last wild Pyrenean...

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