Conservation
The image of a polar bear stranded on an ice floe. Herds of thousands of walruses hauled out on land, deprived of their sunning platforms of choice: sea ice. Videos from NASA simulating how carbon dioxide moves through the atmosphere and travels around the globe.
Conservation
I never truly appreciated the importance of the polar bear as a mascot for global warming and climate change until I saw these magnificent creatures up close and personal on a WWF/Natural Habitat trip to the “Polar Bear Capital of the World,” in Churchill, Canada.
News & More
Last year in honor of the International Day of Happiness, we asked you to tell us what it is about travel that makes you happiest. We loved your responses, and we’re excited to share some of them with you now in honor of this year’s International Day of Happiness coming up on March 20th, 2016!
Nature & Wildlife
While visiting the tiny little village of Churchill with WWF & Natural Habitat Adventures, we were lucky enough to witness a “polar bear lift,” a critical tool in the polar bear conservation toolbox—and one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
Conservation
In October 2015 I had the pleasure of accompanying guests on Natural Habitat Adventures’ Classic Polar Bear Adventure in Canada. I work on climate change adaptation for WWF, and a large part of my work is focused on how climate change is impacting species, and how we can help them adapt.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose two sparring polar bears. Photographer Nancy Keith Kelly took this photograph while in Churchill with Nat Hab last year. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose this polar bear patiently waiting in the willows as it snows. Photographer Suzanne Emerson snapped this photo while viewing polar bears in Churchill with Nat Hab.
Videos
There are reams of scientific studies on the rapid climate change we are now experiencing, all showing us why we need to act now if we want to avoid environmental disaster. Yet, it seems, we still fail to see the urgency.
Nature Photography
WWF & Natural Habitat Adventures’ polar bear season has wrapped up, and we are wading through the photos our guides took and shared on social media while out in the field.
News & More
Warming ocean temperatures are diminishing the number of polar bears, causing a loss of Arctic sea ice and breaking up the East Antarctica ice sheet.
Conservation
Ursus maritimus (the polar bear) is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species—one step away from the list’s official Endangered designation. Make no doubt about it, Frosty the Snowman is melting, and along with him, so is the sea ice that the King of the Arctic depends on.
Travel Tips
According to Climate Central, an independent organization of scientists and journalists that researches and reports the facts about our changing climate, last year was the hottest in the past 135. Now, as we approach fall 2015, it’s looking like this year just might top that record.
