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Europe
The northern lights—also known as the aurora borealis—have been around since the Earth formed an atmosphere more than four billion years ago. The dinosaurs saw them, early humans certainly gazed at them, you may have wondered at them and they will probably mesmerize your descendants, as well.
Nature & Wildlife
Harboring one of the planet’s last great bastions of ice, East Greenland is a wild Arctic landscape. Polar bears reign over this raw terrain—an expanse of hardy tundra, jagged fjords and massive glaciers. But climate change is altering the bears’ habitat.
Nature & Wildlife
Fall 2017 will officially come to a close in just about two weeks. It was probably one of the warmest falls that you can remember.
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 scene out of Botswana. Photographer Carol Griffiths was on Nat Hab’s Secluded Botswana Safari when her group came upon a mother zebra nursing her foal.
Alaska
For avid nature photographers searching for the ultimate chance to get close-up pictures of grizzly bears at eye level, it’s tough to top an American bear safari.
News & More
Today, in the current political climate, with national parks falling into disrepair because of budget cuts and parks and monuments threatened with downsizing, I was astonished to learn about a newly proposed national park.
Travel Tales
“The entire trip was exceptional. Everything was extremely well-scheduled and proceeded without a hitch. Special thanks to our Expedition Leader, Francis Kudumo, he was amazing in assuring everyone could spot the animals and experience their habitats while feeling safe in very close proximity.
Travel Tales
“The Jaguars & Wildlife of Brazil’s Pantanal was our third Natural Habitat trip, and it by far exceeded our expectations. The trip was just magical. From the start of the trip, the excitement built at each location.
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 chipmunk in Washington. Photographer Tim Nicol watched this little rodent perch on a dried sunflower. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Nature & Wildlife
Despite what you may have learned in elementary school, there were probably no turkeys at the first Thanksgiving. The written menu listed fowl, but this most likely meant ducks, goose, grouse, passenger pigeons, swans—or maybe even bald eagles.
Conservation
Conflict between wolves and ranchers is just about as old as, well, as there have been ranchers in the West. Wolves were nearly hunted, poisoned and trapped to extinction in the Lower 48 a few decades ago, due in part to the threat they posed to livestock.
Antarctica & Arctic
By Megan Koelemay, Director of Digital Marketing at Natural Habitat Adventures Weather can impact our travel experiences as much as (and sometimes more than) anything else. As French novelist Marcel Proust once wrote, “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
