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The non-profit WildAid is working on an ambitious, multi-year plan to overhaul the cargo handling and quarantine procedures between mainland South America and the Galapagos Islands in order to prevent the arrival of potentially harmful new invasive species within the archipelago.
When you travel the world to see unique wildlife and diverse landscapes, you are also helping the local communities you visit! Saturday is the UN’s World Tourism Day and this year’s theme is “Tourism & Community Development”, a subject near and dear to our hearts at Nat Hab and WWF.
We are thrilled to announce that Cassie O’Connor will be joining our Best of Indonesia February departure. Cassie O’Connor: February 24 – March 13, 2015 At World Wildlife Fund, Cassie O’Connor works with foundations and with program staff to provide support to conservation projects throughout the world, with a particular focus on Indonesia and the Pacific.
If you are lucky enough to visit the Galapagos Islands, chances are you’ll take a water taxi at some point during your visit. They are the small boats, usually about 20-feet long, that transfer passengers from cruise boats to shore, from one part of an island to another, and even from island to island.
Anyone who has visited Yellowstone National Park can attest to the beauty of Grand Prismatic Spring, a body of water that has a deep, brilliant blue color at its center and measures 370 feet in diameter.
The rhinos of Africa are faced with a sad reality. Every seven hours a rhinoceros life is taken by poachers, and without the help of conservation efforts, the two African rhino species face the very real possibility of extinction.
If you’re a fan of NPR’s Radiolab, you may have already heard the episode they put out earlier this year about the Galapagos Islands. If you haven’t heard it, and you have any interest in the islands (or natural history, science or conservation in general), then it’s definitely worth an hour of your time.
An experience of the world’s vanishing wild places is the heart of what we offer at Natural Habitat Adventures.
Dr. Godfrey Merlen is an English biologist who has called the Galapagos Islands home for the last forty years.
The number of blue-footed boobies, one of the most iconic Galapagos bird species, has declined by 50% in the last 20 years, according to a recent study published by biologists from Wake Forest University in the journal Avian Conservation and Ecology. “It is alarming,” according to lead Professor Dave Anderson.
Wildlife Services, part of the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, set off a firestorm of criticism recently when it released data showing that in 2013 the agency killed more than 4 million animals—2 million of which, according to the Center for Biological Diversity—were from native species.
Smokey Bear turned 70 years old this past Saturday, August 9, 2014.
