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Thanksgiving kicks off not only an intense retail sales season but a busy travel period. News headlines about the numbers of us that take to the road, air or train tracks, however, mask the fact that annually, Americans leave 429 million vacation days unused. That’s a statistic that makes me cringe.
Before the terrorist attacks that left more than 125 people dead and hundreds wounded in Paris on Friday, November 13, 2015, the city was set to host the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, starting on November 30, 2015.
In recent decades, the day after Thanksgiving—known as “Black Friday”—has become the biggest shopping day of the year.
If destinations were judged by their diversity of natural beauty, then Montenegro—one of the newest officially independent countries in the world—would undoubtedly be a global leader. Of course, diversity of natural beauty doesn’t necessarily lead to a sustainable tourism destination.
Would you mind living next door to a top predator? It’s a question I’ve asked you before. It seems that when it comes to bears, lions or wolves, we humans, as a whole, can’t get rid of our four-footed, predatory neighbors fast enough.
Witnessing any of nature’s great spectacles—such as the wildebeest migration of Africa, the wintering grounds of millions of monarch butterflies in Mexico or thousands of sea turtles coming ashore from the Pacific Ocean to lay eggs—is usually described by onlookers as nothing short of “awe-inspiring.”
Most of us see the benefits of the world’s Olympic Games: they are some of the very few times nations come together to showcase their most beautiful landscapes and best athletes. For the hosting cities and countries, the hope is that the events will result in economic gains through tourism, marketing and other means.
If you happened to be watching NBC’s TODAY Show this morning, you may have seen a familiar face – Nat Hab’s own Don Martinson, Director of Travel Industry Relations, was featured in a segment about top travel trends from Virtuoso Travel Week!
You’ve cut down on the number of plastic water bottles you buy. You make sure to load your groceries into reusable fabric totes, forgoing the plastic bags the store offers.
Citizen science has become an important tool for scientific research. Now, as funds for federal agencies and state natural resources departments around the country shrink, using ordinary folks to gather and record wildlife and environmental observations stretch limited research dollars by getting reams of data for free. NASA relies on amateur astronomers for asteroid observations.
After almost a century, wolves have come home to California. On August 20, 2015, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced that it had photographic evidence from a trail camera that two gray wolf adults and five pups had taken up residence in southeastern Siskiyou County in northern California.
Last week Nat Hab’s Creative Director Mark Hickey flew to Vancouver, British Columbia to monitor the printing of the latest and greatest Catalog of World’s Greatest Nature Journeys for Natural Habitat Adventures and World Wildlife Fund. Once again, the catalog is printed on 100% PCW FSC certified paper.
