Conservation
Wildlife tourism—tourism specifically based on encounters with undomesticated animals—accounts for 20 to 40 percent of the total $1 trillion annual, global tourism industry. This comes from a paper published in late 2015 in the peer-reviewed, science journal PLOS ONE. The paper further states that wildlife tourism is the leading foreign-exchange earner in several countries.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a lion cub in Zambia. While on safari, photographer Varun Yennemadi came to where a lioness had killed a wildebeest and her cubs were reaping the rewards.
News & More
A gigantic iceberg has just broken off from Antarctica’s massive Larsen C Ice Shelf. The berg began its independent life sometime in the middle of July 2017. And it’s huge. The 2,200-square-mile iceberg weighs a trillion tons (twice the volume of Lake Erie) and is nearly the size of Delaware.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected lion cubs running through the Serengeti. Photographer Steve Grodin watched these young lions playing together while on safari in Tanzania. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Videos
Although prominently featured on the California flag, a wild grizzly bear hasn’t been seen in the state since the 1920s. In the early 1800s, about 50,000 grizzlies roamed between the Pacific Ocean and the Great Plains. In California alone, before the Gold Rush (1848–1858), there were probably 10,000 grizzlies.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a special moment out of Alaska. Photographer Brad Starry was viewing brown bears when a mother and cub came in to view. 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 selected a moment out of Alaska. Photographer Cyril Doche was visiting Alaska when, down the road from him, a sow and her two cubs crossed to gain access to a river for salmon fishing.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a loving scene out of Serengeti National Park. Photographer Steve Grodin was on safari in Tanzania when he took this photograph of a mother and her young nuzzling one another.
Videos
Camera traps, GPS tracking and radio-collaring are all tools that researchers have traditionally used to study the wildlife that shares the planet with us. But it seems there’s now another method—an ingenious one—that allows us to unobtrusively infiltrate communities in the natural world without letting our very presence alter them.
Travel Tales
Matt Erke serves as an Program Officer for WWF’s Forest Program. Matt tells about how travel opened his eyes to the incredible beauty and power of nature. 1. How did you catch the travel bug?
Nature & Wildlife
When we get together to appreciate the arts, for political purposes, for social interactions or simply for support, we can be called, among other things, an audience, a band, a bunch, a cohort, a crowd, a group, a mob or a troupe.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a moment from a drive in Zambia. Photographer Jim Trojanowski was on safari with Nat Hab near Busanga Bush Camp when his group witnessed this lioness leaping across a waterway.
