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On a late May day in 2020, a rare sighting occurred. For the first time in nearly 50 years, California condors had landed within Sequoia National Park, along the U.S. west coast’s Sierra Mountain range. People within the park spotted at least six of these New World vultures.
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.
The mercury’s dropping, snow is in the air and Orion rules the night sky. All signs point to winter—the season that induces cabin fever like no other. It’s time for a vacation, and whether you’re hoping to embrace the cold or slip off to sunnier climes, Natural Habitat Adventures has you covered.
Jaguar sightings in Brazil’s Pantanal have increased markedly in recent years, transforming this vast wetland into one of the best places on Earth to observe South America’s largest big cat in the wild.
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 eyes take their turn in the spotlight.
By Heather Cockey, WWF Director of Institutional Budgeting and Financial Management Picture it: Sicily, 1922…no that’s not right. Mexico, 2023. Actually, that’s still not where our story really begins. Washington DC, still 2023.
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 it’s the only way to explore the wild upper reaches of the world’s largest river system.
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 you with.
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 Peru.
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 tiny amphibians that play such an important role in maintaining ecological integrity. Others are put off by their bulging eyes, sudden jumps and throaty croaks.
Nat Hab conservation partner World Wildlife Fund recently released two reports on the state of Eastern monarch butterfly populations—and the findings are troubling. The first report is based on an annual WWF-Mexico survey.
Extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves, intense wildfires and mega-storms are among the most widely reported and easily identifiable climate change-related effects. However, the rising global average temperature, caused by increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to human activities, also negatively affects wildlife.
