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Wendy Redal

Save vanishing species next time you’re at the post office

I can't say I've seen any tigers or rhinos lurking around my local post office, but next time I pop in for stamps, I'll be able to help protect them. That's...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Are Canadians Nicer than Americans?

In the first few hours of my first day in the first country I ever visited, I was stopped on the street by a local man, who guessed by the camera hanging...

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Wendy Redal

World Tourism Day: Travel Makes a Difference!

Today is World Tourism Day, a chance for countries and citizens around the globe to ponder and celebrate the crucial role of travel in our mutual wellbeing....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Beyond Sustainable

As someone committed to going on nature adventures, you most likely try to make the least negative impact on the world that you possibly can when you travel....

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Wendy Redal

New monkey species discovered in Amazon

Scientists have discovered a new species of monkey on an expedition into an unexplored part of the Brazilian Amazon. The monkey is a new species of titi, or...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Extinction of Handwriting and the Wobbly Travel Journal

In just a few short decades, something that was a big part of our culture will probably go extinct: the ability to write and read cursive. Indiana is just one...

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Wendy Redal

Who’s Responsible for your Safety in the Wilderness?

It's hard to believe it's been nearly 20 years since Stella Liebeck sued McDonald's in the infamous "hot coffee" case. Ms. Liebeck claimed McDonald's should...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Yosemite to Cut Trees for Better Views

“These darn trees are getting in the way of my view of nature,” joked one of my guides on a trip to British Columbia a few years back. We had stopped during a...

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Wendy Redal

Deal With the Devil? Tanzania to Mine Uranium in Selous to Fund Park Upkeep

Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park is legendary, but its biggest game reserve – the Selous – is even more impressive, for its size and stunning amount of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Adventure Coming, I Can Feel It in My Bones

You’ve probably heard about people who “see” the color blue when they hear a certain note played on a piano, for instance, or experience a sweet “taste” in...

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Wendy Redal

Botswana to ban wildlife hunting

Botswana is once more taking a leading role among African nations in advancing wildlife conservation as it prepares to end game hunting in favor of safaris...

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Wendy Redal

Study: Polar Bear Cubs Drowning Due to Sea Ice Loss

Polar bears in peril have become an icon for the woes of a warming planet. The sea ice they rely upon to hunt seals is freezing later and breaking up earlier,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Space Shuttle Grounded: Will America Lose Its Spirit for Adventure?

“STS-135: the Final Mission.” Sounds like the title of a new Star Trek film, doesn’t it? In reality, it’s the phrase denoting the end of our nation’s space...

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Wendy Redal

Meet Rita Kinstler: Nat Hab Adventurer Extraordinaire

Rita Kinstler is 75, though she travels circles around most people a third of her age, including long-term backpacker-types. Rita logs 8 to 10 major trips a...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Take a Hike; Get a Bigger Brain

You momentarily forget where you set down your keys—and you just happen to be over 50 years of age—and you can already hear in your mind the jokes that will...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Adventures of a Photo

Images of natural landscapes have spoken to our souls since the time we started painting them on cave walls. And every few months, it seems, another new...

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Wendy Redal

Explore a National Park This Week — For Free!

It's National Park Week in the USA. At a moment when the federal budget is as strained as it's ever been, our parks are nonetheless open free of charge to all...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Adventure: A Sales Opportunity?

I’ll admit it: I’m a vampire-story junkie. Ever since I read Anne Rice’s 1976 novel Interview with a Vampire, I’ve been thirsting—shall we say—for more. So,...

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