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Most of us know the wonder of travel isn’t limited to the trip itself. Our excitement extends from packing our bags to the journey home. The feeling of an expanded consciousness lingers long after we return to our daily lives. The most seasoned travelers intentionally cultivate this excitement, wonder, and education beyond their trips.
In just about a week, we’ll be celebrating another New Year’s Eve. And along with the merrymaking and reflection on the past year, we’ll also be pondering what we want to accomplish in the next 12 months.
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 mountain gorillas.
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 everything we’d be wearing outdoors.
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 waddle into the nearby water.
By Rachael Axelrod (WWF’s Senior Program Officer for Climate, Communities, and Wildlife) and Elisabeth Kruger (WWF’s Manager for Arctic Wildlife Conservation) Before flying into Churchill, our Natural Habitat Adventures group was told our chances of seeing a polar bear were promising, but nothing could be guaranteed. This is nature, after all!
By Brad Nahill, President, SEE Turtles If there is a poster species for the worldwide epidemic of plastic pollution, it’s sea turtles. Researchers have known the threats to sea turtles from plastic waste for decades; organizations that monitor nesting beaches have been working on this issue long before it became a popular cause.
One of today’s best-known “superfoods,” quinoa has been a crop within South America’s indigenous rural communities for thousands of years.
How AI is Transforming Conservation Wildlife and biodiversity may not be the first things that come to mind when you think of AI, but conservation organizations like WWF have long used a variety of technologies to monitor and manage the health of wildlife and ecosystems.
Snow leopards occupy a range that spans the high mountains of 12 countries across Asia, where the hostile weather and rugged terrain conspire to snuff out any sign of life. Few animals and fewer humans can survive in this liminal space.
Ever since the HMS Beagle arrived in the Galapagos Islands with a young Charles Darwin aboard—who was soon to meet a fateful family of finches—ecologists have struggled to understand a particularly perplexing question: Why is there such a ridiculous abundance of species in some places on Earth and a scarcity in others?
By Christina Armstrong, WWF’s Development Officer, Regional Philanthropy, East Taylor Swift’s chart-topping song Karma off her Midnights album was on repeat in my head in Brazil’s Pantanal while on Natural Habitat’s Jaguars & Wildlife expedition in July 2023.
