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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.
Travel Tales
If some wise old Gypsy woman ventured to read the cracked lines and hard blisters of my palm, she could clearly find that two activities have dominated my life—drinking good wine and paddling great waters!
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 tower of giraffes. Photographer Perry White took this photo while on a game drive in the Maasai Mara when 30 giraffes moved toward the vehicle.
Videos
Almost every single one of you has had that “nature moment”; the instant when an animal encounter or a sighting of a natural landscape or phenomenon takes your breath away. The power of those brief minutes is so strong that you remember them for the rest of your life.
Conservation
This article was originally published in WWF’s Thin Ice Blog In mid-November, I spent a week in Churchill on Canada’s Hudson Bay Coast. It’s one of the most popular places for viewing polar bears, as they gather on the shore waiting for the sea ice to form, so they can end their long summer fast.
African Safaris
As I wrote in a recent article, See—and Save—the Endangered Rhino, two of the remaining species of Rhinoceros in Asia—the Javan and Sumatran rhinos—are critically endangered (with an estimated only 57 individuals left in Java, Indonesia!).
Conservation
Hacienda Zuleta, a colonial-era working farm in the Andean Highlands, sits at 9,600 feet in the Imbabura Province of Ecuador. Guests on select Natural Habitat Galapagos departures enjoy a 2-night stay at Zuleta, the best place to view wildlife in the region, including wild Andean condors and spectacled bears.
News & More
In the past few decades, rapid climate change has certainly revealed a lot about how our planet is being reshaped and modified. Global warming has been linked to wars, the death of the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, and it has even altered our farming techniques.
Conservation
China’s giant pandas are some of the most rare and beloved animals on Earth. These black-and-white bears have long been a global icon of the urgent need for humans to preserve natural habitats and protect wildlife worldwide.
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.
Travel Tales
Most of the time, when I am out in the field on Nat Hab nature trips, the focus is on wildlife. On our Northern Lights and Arctic Cultures tour, the focus was on the mind-blowing lights of the aurora borealis.
Conservation
Looking for any excuse to write about one of my favorite destinations on the entire planet, the Galapagos Islands, I recently caught up with my friend and Executive Director of the International Galapagos Tour Operators Association (IGTOA), Matt Kareus.
