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Nat Geo’s Cover Story & the Ethics of Wildlife Tourism
You may have seen the cover of this month’s National Geographic: a sloth peeks out from behind boards under a headline announcing “The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism.” The magazine’s special report details how
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Fernandina Giant Tortoise Found After
113 Years of ‘Extinction’
More great news for the Galapagos! A species of giant tortoise, believed to have been extinct for the past 113 years, has been found on the island of Fernandina. This historic discovery comes a
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Under the Ice in Antarctica and Greenland: More Future Warming and a Past Cooling Down
If you were asked to name active volcano sites around the world, you’d probably include places such as Hawaii, Yellowstone National Park and Iceland, the country often labeled “the land of fire and ice.”
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19 Nat Hab Travel Destinations Named
Top Trips of 2019
With the New Year approaching, travel media outlets such as Lonely Planet, Fodor’s and National Geographic have been curating lists of the best places to go in 2019. Several of Nat Hab’s destinations have
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Announcing the Winners of the 2019 Monarch Butterfly Scholarship Grant!
Congratulations to Mireille Hess and Trevor Hance, the two teachers who have been awarded Natural Habitat Adventures’ 2019 Monarch Butterfly Scholarship Grant! Nat Hab is honored to host these inspiring environmental educators on a
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Scotland Doctors Are Now Officially Prescribing Nature
Decades of research have proven that nature is good for us, whether we’re children or in our senior years. From attention deficit disorder to anxiety, and from high blood pressure to depression—and even from
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A Train Comes to Churchill: Prime Minister
Rings in New Beginning
In the winter of 2017, a three-day blizzard blanketed Churchill, a small town that sits on the edge of the Hudson Bay in the remote subarctic. As drifts reached rooftops and encompassed buses, residents
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There is Life in the Ice, and It’s Got a Message about Climate Change
Scientists have long considered polar ice to be an extreme environment; a sterile place within which nothing can survive. But new evidence shows that there are living bacteria in Arctic and Antarctic ice and
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