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Happy World Oceans Day! At Natural Habitat Adventures, we love celebrating our waters and the undiscovered mysteries they hold. Our favorite way to enjoy our oceans is with our travelers out on a marine adventure.
Sustainable travel is coded into Natural Habitat Adventures’ DNA, and 2018 was an exceptional year in taking on conservation projects for our Boulder-based ecotourism company! The infographic below displays some of Nat Hab’s 2018 accomplishments, including eliminating straws from more than 75 percent of our trips and launching the World’s First Zero Waste Adventure.
Mireille Hess a third-grade teacher at Edgewood Elementary School in Greenfield, Wisconsin, who received the 2019 Monarch Butterfly Scholarship Grant, which gave her a firsthand experience with the monarch butterfly migration in Mexico. My biggest takeaway from this incredible experience is that we’re in this together.
BHAGs—Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals. That’s something that we constantly strive for here at Natural Habitat Adventures. And while the term itself is not officially part of our esteemed Core Ideologies, it lives in the culture of our workplace and our global community.
Natural Habitat Adventures employees pride ourselves on our dedication to conservation and sustainability initiatives. Rashel Gandhi, Adventure Concierge and Green Team member, embodies these exceptional qualities, and Nat Hab isn’t the only one who has noticed.
Brilliant and skillful in its storytelling, the emotions Our Planet evokes are all at once awe-inspiring, mesmerizing and heart-wrenching. This gripping portrait of the critical condition of our planet highlights key conservation issues, which can be boiled down to one problem: our world is becoming less wild.
Natural Habitat Adventures loves celebrating the holidays! Each year, Nat Hab’s office employees come together for a huge Thanksgiving potluck, an epic St. Patrick’s Day feast and an unforgettable holiday party, to name a few. Though we love celebrating all holidays, here at Natural Habitat Adventures, our favorite holiday by far is Earth Day.
Our Planet takes us on a journey through the earth’s biological realms, highlighting its rarest creatures and hidden natural wonders. This photographic companion to the Netflix original documentary series details the ways humans are affecting the world’s ecosystems and urges us to collectively preserve wild places and species.
Walking through the Mexican Highlands, you can almost hear a little flutter. Footsteps slowly approach the noise as the forest in the distance comes into view. As you get closer, you realize the trees are shimmering orange and black. Suddenly, you find yourself standing under a canopy of life, filled with millions of monarch butterflies.
In Search of the Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen The now across the river glows, and the rocks and peaks, the serpentine black stream, and snows, sky, stars, the firmament—all ring like the bell of the universal Buddha. –Dharma Rain In the Himalayas, Buddhist monasteries are saving snow leopards.
Today, little more than 20 percent of the world can still be considered “wilderness.” That’s not a lot, especially when you weigh the benefits that those few designated areas provide.
The new year rang in a landmark win for conservation in the Galapagos as land iguanas were reintroduced to Santiago Island for the first time in 184 years. One of the last people to record land iguanas, Conolophus subcristatus, on Santiago was the celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin in 1835.
