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Travel Tales
Isabelle Willson, a WWF staff member, joined Natural Habitat Adventures’ Undiscovered Cuba adventure, a Cuba People-to-People Exchange with a strong focus on its pristine wilderness areas and lively culture and recounts a typical day on this adventure. 7:00 am: I wake up and I walk out on to the balcony of my room.
Travel Tales
By Lauren Deeley, Adventure Specialist at Natural Habitat Adventures Have you ever had a moment where you have to pinch yourself because you don’t quite believe that this experience is really happening to you? If not, I’d highly recommend you pop on over to the Galapagos Islands the next chance you get!
News & More
It’s the beginning of a brand-new year, and—in geological terms—it may be the start of a new name for our era.
Nature & Wildlife
India is one of the world’s most stimulating nature travel destinations. Renowned for its dramatic rivers, fabled jungles and profuse wildlife, including the majestic Bengal tiger, India’s range of wild habitats offers extraordinary riches for passionate nature travelers.
Nature & Wildlife
By Chris Kassar Imagine enormous herds of wildebeest and zebra traversing the East African plains while predators follow in stealthy pursuit. It’s something you’ve almost certainly seen on film, and now you can witness this dramatic event in person during the Great Migration.
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 cheetah in Tanzania. Photographer Michael Miller took this photo during a bush walk.
Videos
Lionfish, a colorful native of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans (the Indo-Pacific region) have now taken up what could become permanent residence in the Atlantic Ocean—from North Carolina to Florida, in all Gulf of Mexico states and in the Caribbean. That isn’t good news.
Travel Tales
A photo essay based on Natural Habitat Adventure’s Great Amazon River Cruise in Peru. #1: The next installment of Mad Max should be filmed in Iquitos Three-wheeled tuc-tucs and other rolling contraptions dominate Iquitos—the biggest city in the Peruvian Amazon, and our trip’s jumping off point.
Conservation
Allowing wildlife—a public resource—to be transferred into the hands of private operations isn’t a new idea. Many U.S. states allow the practice to generate income in economically stressed areas. Now, however, some Australian conservationists are proposing the same concept, only not just for prey animals, prized for supplying hunting opportunities.
Nature & Wildlife
While we humans like to claim that our own offspring are incredibly cute creatures, there is no denying that the most adorable babies in the world are the future kings of the great white North. Polar bears are born in the shelter of their mother’s den.
Galapagos Islands
The Galapagos Islands, arguably the most famous islands in the world, have a rich, fairly recent history filled with whalers, pirates and fur-seal traders, followed by adventurous tourists and those wanting to escape the life of mainland “civilization.”
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 bald eagle on the California-Oregon border. Photographer Larry Venus snapped this photo while visiting a wildlife refuge on a freezing cold day. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
