Galapagos Islands
If you can’t make it down to the Galapagos Islands anytime soon, Google Map’s Galapagos Street View is a cost effective way to get a sense of what it’s like to walk amongst nesting boobies and snorkel with playful sea lions.
Videos
The Great Bear Rain Forest in British Columbia, Canada, has often been described as a “bastion of biodiversity.” Not only is it home to grizzly bears, black bears and spirit bears, it has a human history that goes back 10,000 years.
Conservation
Anyone who has visited Yellowstone National Park can attest to the beauty of Grand Prismatic Spring, a body of water that has a deep, brilliant blue color at its center and measures 370 feet in diameter.
Videos
What does it feel like to travel over 600 miles through the Amazon? The world’s largest rain forest and its rivers comprise a complex realm where even the teeniest insect, seemingly invasive vine and inhibited bird all serve important roles.
Travel Tales
The Congo Basin is a priority place for WWF. It’s the 2nd largest rain forest in the world after the Amazon, and the special part, other than the sheer remoteness and absolute wilderness filled with much undiscovered, undocumented flora and fauna, is the uniqueness of the wildlife here.
Videos
In 2010, in the jungle of Gabon, West Africa, conservationist Damian Aspinall set out to find Kwibi, a lowland gorilla he raised from birth at Howletts Wild Animal Park in England.
Nature & Wildlife
When we feed wild animals, the result can be just as lethal as if we had poisoned them. But is feeding wild animals always wrong?
Galapagos Islands
I had the pleasure of meeting traveler Richard Jacobs during a trip to Churchill, Canada, to see polar bears. A great conversationalist, considerate environmentalist and fine travel companion, Jacobs also proved to be a talented photographer and videographer; we even published one of his photos in the 2014-15 WWF-NHA travel catalog.
Conservation
Meet Raju the elephant. For the past 50 years, Raju was living in a nightmare of cruelty and suffering in Allahabad, India. He was poached when he was a young calf and cycled through many abusive owners throughout his life.
Conservation
Thanks to passionate conservationists, animals, such as tigers and black rhinos, have been brought back from the edge of extinction. Other animals, at-risk to an array of threats, get much-needed protection, too.
Alaska
Have you heard how close our groups get to the grizzly bears on our Coastal Alaska Grizzly trips? Within mere feet! And it’s not from the window of a safari vehicle, it’s on foot. I didn’t believe it when I first started working at Nat Hab…that is, until I saw video footage of it!
Conservation
Living with wildlife can be dangerous. However, Namibians are committed to their protection because responsible tourism and national pride make his wildlife worth more alive than dead. “The Guardians” tells the story of Jantjie Rhyn, a farmer directly involved in conservation, guarding Namibia’s legacy and his family’s future.
