Latin America Stories

Cathy Brown

Eight Spooky Plants to Admire From Afar (Very Far!)

Spring may be for pastel tulips and heavenly scented lilacs, but autumn is when plants with spooky names like bat flower, cobra lily, corpse flower and doll’s...

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WWF

You Give Me Butterflies: A Love Letter to Our WWF Donors

By Heather Cockey, WWF Director of Institutional Budgeting and Financial Management  Picture it: Sicily, 1922…no that’s not right. Mexico, 2023. Actually,...

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Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Machu Picchu’s Best-Kept Secrets

Sitting proudly at the top of the bucket list of anyone who loves to travel, Machu Picchu—the “Lost City of the Incas”—is one of the most spectacular ancient...

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Valerie Gleaton

Amazon Riverboat Safari: Journey Into the Heart of the Amazon

You've traveled by plane, train and automobile—but how about riverboat? This classic mode of transport harkens back to a romantic era of luxury travel...and...

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WWF

The Galapagos Islands: A Symphony of Biodiversity

By Abel Valdivia, WWF Lead Marine Conservation Scientist The Galapagos Islands, a remote tropical paradise nested in the heart of the Eastern Pacific Ocean,...

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WWF

Five Reasons You Should Book a Family Trip with Nat Hab

By Sara Thomas, WWF Senior Director of Integrated Marketing and Activism Tucked away in the Pacific Ocean exists a wildlife enthusiast’s paradise—one that...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

New Trip! Delve Deep Into Wild Peru

Peru holds so much diversity for the nature explorer who is also intrigued by its rich cultural history...and we've got three different adventures to entice...

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Emily Goodheart

Nat Hab Philanthropy Supports Sole Communal Library in the Galapagos

At Natural Habitat Adventures, our product is conservation travel: life-transforming forays into the natural world that benefit wild habitats and the animals...

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Cathy Brown

The Amazon River Through the Eyes of a Naturalist Guide

Marcel Proust once famously said, "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." While traveling solo can be a...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Galapagos Coral Reef Discovered

Deep beneath the waters of the Galapagos Marine Reserve (GMR) and atop a submerged volcano, an ancient coral reef was just discovered by an international...

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WWF

Ten Interesting Facts about Machu Picchu

By Johanna Murphy, World Wildlife Fund More than 7,000 feet above sea level in the Andes Mountains, Machu Picchu is the most visited tourist destination in...

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Cathy Brown

Four “New” Frog Species to Celebrate on Save the Frogs Day

A frog spotting can evoke different extremes of emotion. Some people can't wait to hear the return of their spring ribbits and look with reverence at these...

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Valerie Gleaton

WWF-Mexico Reports Show Monarch Butterflies in Trouble (Plus How to Help)

Nat Hab conservation partner World Wildlife Fund recently released two reports on the state of Eastern monarch butterfly populations—and the findings are...

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Lavanya Sunkara

Travel With a Climate Scientist: Venture to Remote Greenland, Meet Polar Bears and Explore the Amazon

Extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves, intense wildfires and mega-storms are among the most widely reported and easily identifiable climate...

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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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Natural Habitat Adventures

The Magic of Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Sanctuaries

By Nat Hab Expedition Leader Jimmy Nguyen El Rosario in the Afternoon — A Warm Welcome Even before clambering out of our open-topped truck, our Nat Hab group...

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WWF

Chasing Monarch Butterflies: A Memoir of Mexico’s El Rosario Preserve

By Mac Mirabile, Senior Director of Analytics at World Wildlife Fund  A solitary monarch butterfly flutters along a dusty path leading our group of eager...

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Michelle Peters

Wildlife of Patagonia: Pumas, Penguins and More

Peerless Patagonia is striking in grandeur, yet humble in character. As Andean spires rise to the sky, glaciers wind their way down to turquoise lakes dotted...

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