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Glaciers creep their way across vast regions, spreading their hefty mass of hundreds of years of compacted snow and ice all swaths of land standing in their way. Some glaciers appear dusty and rocky and others radiate such a brilliant aquamarine color, it looks as if they’re lighted from within by an intense halogen bulb.
At most, how many pounds of meat can a tiger consume at one time? How much of tigers’ historic range has been lost? These are some of questions you’ll come across when you take WWF’s Tiger IQ quiz.
Watch this two minute video taken in the Galápagos by traveler and WWF employee Heather Finn. Find out what happens when two giant tortoises meet on a narrow path – who will win this show of dominance? Travel to the Galápagos with NatHab and WWF.
A friend recently sent me an article called “21 Strange Animals You Didn’t Know Exist,” and I was shocked that I hadn’t heard of one animal on the list! The article calls it a round-up of strange animals, but I think these are some of mother nature’s greatest masterpieces.
WWF’s Whitney Kent traveled to Africa with her family to see mountain gorillas in the wild. We caught up with her to talk about the experience. WWF Travel: How long did you have to hike before spotting the mountain gorillas? Was it a difficult climb? Whitney Kent: We did two gorilla treks in two separate days.
The beluga whale is easily recognizable thanks to its stark white coloring and globular head. Belugas are very social animals, and it’s possible to see pods numbering in the hundreds during a trip to Churchill, Canada. Also known as “sea canaries,” belugas are one of the most the most vocal of all whales.
The New York Times published an exclusive list 52 places to visit in 2014. Here are 11 of the destinations WWF and Nat Hab can take you to in 2014.
Twelve years ago, a Nat Hab polar bear trip inspired an award-winning Manhattan designer to dedicate her life to years of polar bear research leading to the creation of the world’s most comprehensive interactive polar bear almanac for students. The eBook is finally coming to fruition this year with the launch of their Kickstarter campaign!
By Holly Glessner, Air Travel Specialist If you’re like me, then you’ve often thought about the many creatures that roam the expansive forest that surrounds you while hiking the trails in our beautiful national parks. One of my favorite places to hike is Glacier National Park.
When UCLA Medical Center cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was asked one day to perform echocardiography on the failing heart of a Los Angeles Zoo emperor tamarin, a small monkey that evolved in the treetops of the Central and South American rain forests, she couldn’t have predicted how profoundly that act would change her thinking on…
In their quest to run across nearly 250 miles in two weeks across southern Kenya to raise awareness for wildlife conservation, two young women found a respite over the weekend at a Natural Habitat camp.
A PERSONAL REFLECTION ON THE U.S. IVORY CRUSH Two years ago when I was on safari in Botswana, I saw my first herd of wild elephants. We heard them first—a low, rumbling thunder in the distance.
