Videos
Big, charismatic animals, such as polar bears and bison, are the ones that seem to grab our hearts—sometimes to the exclusion of other, well-deserving but smaller threatened species.
Conservation
Anna and Alex confidently stood in front of a classroom full of rowdy elementary age kids. As newly-minted, pseudo polar bear ambassadors, they presented a homemade movie at their school and spoke to seven different grade levels-from preschool to 6th grade.
Travel Tales
Dear Traveler, Each and every fall, as a cold snap in the air crosses North America, I pack my warm boots and parka and head northward, returning to one of Nat Hab’s most important locations—Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, where polar bears wait for winter’s freeze to start their hunting season.
Travel Tales
When WWF Partner in Conservation Elizabeth Bullitt retired, she decided she was going to see the world’s wild places. Her first trip was a journey to Botswana in Africa. She’s since taken two more trips with WWF and Natural Habitat Adventures—to Antarctica and, this past summer, to the Arctic.
Conservation
This is a guest post by Alicia Smith, Programs Marketing Manager at World Nomads. Alicia recently returned from a polar bear tour with Nat Hab and WWF. Walking home from dinner I have never felt so alert.
Travel Tales
Seeing the polar bears is a magical experience that prompts joy, awe, and sometimes even poetry! On a recent Tundra Lodge & Town Adventure to experience the polar bears in Churchill, talented guest Cindy Tether wrote a beautiful poem describing her unforgettable vacation!
Conservation
From the tiny monarch butterfly to the immense wildebeest of Africa, many of the world’s animal species take on great migrations. Those epic travels may involve seasonal journeys of thousands of miles, traversing multiple countries. For them, our human political boundaries have no meaning.
Nature Photography
National Geographic Magazine annual photo contest is under way again! Photographers can submit their stunning shots up until the October 31st deadline. Here are a few of our favorite wildlife photo submissions so far with the captions written by the original photographers.
Travel Tales
If, like me, you like to travel, there’s probably one particular place away from home that just seems to stick in your heart and head—the one spot where your wanderlust was first awakened.
Nature & Wildlife
The arctic sea ice is melting earlier than ever before because of global climate change. Polar bears now have less time to hunt for seals, threatening their survival.
News & More
While polar bears are typically spotted in the small town of Churchill, Manitoba, researchers are now using a new technology that captures high-resolution satellite images of the arctic to count polar bears from space! Counting polar bear populations is important for quantifying the effects of global climate change on the vulnerable species.
Nature Photography
It’s hard to believe that Elisabeth Kruger, an Arctic and Bering Sea program officer for WWF, once had a career in theater, specifically lighting design. Her interest in lighting attracted her to photography and, while living in Russia for four years, she bought her first “real” camera and starting taking photography classes.
