Why Milkweed Matters: A Guide to Growing Monarch Habitat
Does it seem to you that all of a sudden, people across North America are talking about milkweed? Lately, stories about milkweed and monarch butterflies h...
Rebecca Self
Nature & Wildlife
The Fluidity of Animal Movements
The graceful movements of animals showcase millions of years of evolutionary engineering, combining anatomy, physics and fluidity. From the effortless soar...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Croatia’s & Slovenia’s Top National Parks for Nature Lovers
When a group of local and government organizations got together to create a pilot portion of the Via Dinarica—a network of long-distance hiking trails conn...
Laura Kiniry
What Makes Yellowstone’s Wild Wolves So Captivating?
Few wildlife encounters compare to watching wolves move through the wide, wild valleys of Yellowstone. On Nat Hab’s Yellowstone wolf-watching adventure, ex...
Cathy Brown
Fascinating Facts About Chimpanzees on World Chimpanzee Day
Celebrate World Chimpanzee Day on July 14 with Nat Hab! You can’t help but feel your heart race when you hear the first far-off calls of a chimpanzee...
Mark Jordahl
A Journey With Monarchs, Milkweed and More
Written by Ariana Bowman, WWF’s Gift Planning Senior Development Officer As we navigated through the lush forest landscape on horseback and then on f...
WWF
Aliens on the Rise and Invaders on the Run
Aliens are certainly in our midst, and invaders are running rampant across the planet. What I mean is, plants are spreading across the globe faster than ev...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
The Babakoto Story: How the Indri Became Madagascar’s Most Revered Lemur
Once upon a time, in a small village in eastern Madagascar, a man entered a forest to collect honey with his son, Koto. Koto was very young and was not abl...
Mark Jordahl
Hooves and Horns: Ungulates of North America’s National Parks
What, you may be asking, is an ungulate? You’ve actually known them all along, but perhaps just didn’t know them by their official moniker. Among the ungul...
Michelle Peters
Blue-Footed Boobies in the Galapagos: 8 Fascinating Facts
The Galapagos Islands are home to some of the world’s most recognizable wildlife, and few species attract more attention than the blue-footed booby. ...
Julie Waggoner
Nature’s Medicines
Today, it might sound hyperbolic to say to the majority of us who are living in urban surroundings that nature’s animals and plants are essential for human...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
The Four Sisters: China’s Mythic Creatures & Wild Landscapes
Siguniangshan National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is steeped in mysticism, a realm of glassy lakes, ancient cypress forests and sacred pagodas. Th...
Emily Goodheart
The Unsung Giants Among Us
If you were asked to name a giant that now lives among us, you might immediately think of an African elephant, a blue whale, a mountain gorilla, a polar be...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Magical Encounters in New Zealand’s Lake Moeraki: Kea, Penguins, Glowworms and More
Visit Lake Moeraki, and witness the movements of some of the world’s rarest species. This is a destination for nature lovers, active travelers and anyone s...
Samantha Miller
Eye to Eye with the Friendly Giants of Baja: The Great Gray Whales
Have you ever imagined being eye to eye with one of the most majestic, curious, and charismatic creatures of the sea—the Pacific gray whale? If not, it’s t...
Peter Davis Krahenbuhl
People Making Positive Change for the Planet
More-than-human animals predate humans on Earth by approximately 500 million to more than 800 million years. While modern humans (Homo sapiens) have existe...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
In the Land of Glowing Skies: Kiwi Conservation in New Zealand
Long before people around the world began referring to New Zealanders as “kiwis,” the indigenous Maori held the kiwi bird in high regard. They called this ...
Cathy Brown
Calling All Bird Nerds! Species You Can Spot on Nat Hab’s U.S. National Parks Trips
“I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could,” the legend...
Joe Yogerst
