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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 was greeted by butterflies as they streamed down from El Rosario Butterfly Sanctuary, one of several sanctuaries within the 129,000-acre Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.
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 eco-tourists toward the monarch’s wintering home high among the oyamel fir and pine trees of the Sierra Madre mountains in Michoacán, Mexico.
Costa Rica is known for its natural beauty, advancements in sustainability and conservation, and vast wildlife viewing opportunities. While all these things struck me, what was most inspiring to me was hearing the stories of those who call Costa Rica home.
Did you know that mountain lions have the largest geographic range of any non-human land mammal in the Western Hemisphere? It’s no surprise this magnificent animal, native to the Americas, is called many things: puma, catamount, cougar, painter and panther.
Los Angeles recently celebrated the life of a very famous and dearly loved personality: “Hollywood Cat” P-22 (Puma No. 22). The sole mountain lion to make the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Center its home gained quite the reputation during his ‘reign’ in Tinsel Town.
Despite the challenges today’s world faces, Planet Earth is the gift that keeps on giving. That’s good news for scientists who relish the rush of discovery, as some think there are approximately 8.7 million species left to be found.
Of the seven big cats, jaguars just don’t seem to get the love that more well-known felines like lions, tigers and leopards do. (The other three? Cougars, cheetahs and snow leopards.) International Jaguar Day, celebrated each year on November 29, aims to change that!
By Brad Nahill, President, SEE Turtles SEE Turtles is thrilled to renew our long partnership with Natural Habitat Adventures. Since our launch in 2008, Nat Hab has supported our sustainable travel initiatives tremendously, starting with collaborating on offering trips to research sea turtles in Baja California Sur, Mexico, with our partners at Red Travel Mexico.
Each year around El Día de los Muertos—celebrated November 1 and 2—the sky over the Mexican mountain village of Anguangeo becomes a flurry of orange. But it’s no swirl of bright autumn leaves.
The Pantanal region of South America might seem, at first, to share few similarities with the Northern Great Plains (NGP) region of North America.
Seals, walruses, sea lions and fur seals are all marine animals known as pinnipeds. Pinniped is a Latin-derived word that can be translated to mean “feather-footed” or “fin-footed,” describing an important characteristic that distinguishes each species. Pinnipeds are divided into three distinct families that comprise 33 different species.
The Amazon Basin contains the largest rain forest on Earth, covering 2.7 million square miles—that’s twice the size of India, roughly the area of the Lower 48 states. It contains 10 percent of the world’s entire biodiversity. The Amazon River flows more than 4,000 miles through this massive biome and has 1,100 tributaries.
