Conservation
The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System. The Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. These are just three of the 238 natural and mixed (cultural and natural) sites designated as World Heritage by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. And all three are threatened by human development.
News & More
Grizzly bears and wolves. Other than bison, does America have any mammals more representative of our nation? Unfortunately for them, grizzly bears and wolves are predators, and that sets them apart from bison. It also sets them up to be on the receiving end of some of our most heinous laws and regulations. H. J.
U.S. National Parks
Encounters between people and wildlife in our national parks can sometimes go wrong. That’s why the National Park Service is enlisting some very special rangers. Gracie is just one of this new “breed” of park employees. She works at Montana’s Glacier National Park, is only two years old and walks on four legs.
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 warm Botswana sunset. Photographer Joey Campbell photographed these elephants walking along the horizon near the Chobe River in Chobe National Park. 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 an eagle from India. Photographer Ajay Chakravarthy photographed this crested hawk eagle in Gir National Park. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Nature Photography
By Nat Hab Traveler Darren Livingston | Canyons Photography of the American Southwest Some of the world’s most dramatic natural scenery and unspoiled natural habitats are protected within the U.S. national parks system.
Videos
When the world gets to be too much, when we get too tired of hearing constant messages and always being tuned in, there’s nothing like heading out to a natural spot for some peace and quiet, right? Maybe not. Nature, it turns out, is a noisy place. We rarely achieve true silence when we’re outside.
Videos
The end of 2016 marks the closing of the National Park Service’s centennial year. For the past 12 months, we Americans have been appreciating, celebrating and visiting all of our 413 national park units, large and small.
Nature & Wildlife
The single-engine Grumman AA-5B plane was barely perceptible on the snowy mountainside. It was January 1982, and World Wildlife Fund’s Jim Sano and his fellow team of search and rescue specialists had been scouring White Mountain at Yosemite National Park in California for five days following a blizzard before they spotted the wreckage.
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 in Uganda. Photographer Marian Herz took this photo in Queen Elizabeth Park while looking for tree-climbing lions. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Conservation
Managing wildness. Seems like an oxymoron to me. After all, if it is managed, can it still be wild? Yet that is the almost impossible task we have asked the U.S. National Park Service to do for 100 years.
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 from Brooks Falls. Photographer Bill Galloway took hundreds of photos of the brown bears of Katmai while visiting Alaska. Here, a mother bear catches salmon for her three cubs.
