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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 and are feeding on grasses and the carcasses of elk and moose that have not pulled through the season.
The playful charm that butterflies radiate as they flit about from colorful asters to goldenrods to milkweed is undeniable. Of the 750 butterfly species in the United States, the monarch (Danaus plexippus)—with its brilliant orange-red wings with black veins and white spots along the edges—may be the most iconic and easily recognizable.
The Northern Great Plains spans more than 180 million acres and crosses five U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. This region is comprised of Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
You’ve heard of the plant-based diet…but have you considered a planet-based diet? The current way Earth’s population consumes its food is not doing us any favors – and is a detriment to the planet’s health. Forests are being cleared to make room for cattle rearing. Oceans are overfished.
Have you ever seen a rhinoceros in the wild? You may be able to identify them by their characteristic horns resting atop their nose or their wrinkly skin, but there’s a lot more to these large mammals! What types of rhinos are there?
Wildfires, flooding, drought, deforestation, pollution—it seems like every time we turn on the television, the radio, or log onto social media, we are bombarded with pessimistic or downright negative news about the planet we call home.
At its essence, southern Africa’s Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area is a study in convergence, confluence and coexistence. Connecting vast savannahs, grasslands, marshes, woodlands, saltpans and scrublands across parts of five nations, the 106-million-acre region known as KAZA lies in Africa’s Kavango and Zambezi river basins where Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe converge.
Plastic Pollution According to the 2019 report, Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet, published by the Center for Environmental Law (CIEL), the production and incineration of plastic will add more than 850 million metric tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, threatening the ability of the global community to meet…
In between the Amazon, Atlantic Forests and the Pantanal lies the Cerrado biome in the highlands of Central Brazil—the largest savanna region in all of South America. It is covered in sun-drenched grasslands amid both humid and dry forests filled with gorgeous tree species such as sucupira, copaiba and golden trumpet.
Successful, well-funded conservation programs and effective international coordination with other European nations have established Switzerland as an internationally renowned destination for nature lovers, conservationists and more. The Swiss Alps, glaciers and vast alpine meadows of Switzerland have captured the interests of people across the globe for their undeniable natural beauty.
Preserving the biodiversity we have left is not only of extreme importance for the species we are rapidly losing, but for our own health and well-being. It has long been a goal of nature lovers and conservationists all over the world.
Ask most nature travelers to name the world’s top destinations to see whales in the wild and you’re likely to hear Hawaii, South Africa, Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, British Columbia and Antarctica.
