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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 photo from a South African game drive. Photographer Sahasrangshu Choudhury captured the moment when a leopard, deep within the branches of a tree, devoured its prey.
Videos
Bats and Halloween have been connected for a long time. That could be due to the work of author Bram Stoker, who in his 1897 novel Dracula wrote about a human vampire who could transform into a bat; or it may have come about naturally because bats are generally nocturnal, and three species—out of…
Alaska
Finding strength and unexpected inspiration on Alaska’s Inside Passage “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida On my 46th birthday, I left home in Washington D.C. at the crack of dawn to venture to Alaska for the first time in my life.
Conservation
Becoming a locavore—someone who prefers to find and eat local foods—is a growing and, in most cases, healthy trend in the United States. Locavores typically forage for berries, fruits, mushrooms and nuts; and some take up hunting, deciding they prefer to eat free-range, organically grown meat.
African Safaris
From the golden dunes of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast to the lush green forests of Tanzania’s Mahale Mountains, each of these lesser-visited wildlife parks and reserves in Africa boast a wide variety of natural wonders worthy of exploration and discovery.
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 moose out at dawn. Photographer Jennifer Leigh Warner took this photo on a cold fall morning in Grand Teton National Park. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Travel Tales
Dear Friends, I’m not saying my backpacking days are over, but I will share with you that at this point in my life, I do favor a soft mattress and cotton bed sheets over rocky ground and a smelly sleeping bag. I am officially a camping wimp.
Conservation
Fall in Wisconsin, where I live, is colorful. Leaves in our forests turn vivid purple, red and yellow; and deer hunters in our woods dress in vivid orange.
Alaska
In 2015, I had the privilege of joining an Ultimate Alaska Wildlife Photo Safari for a spectacular 14-day tour of Alaska’s natural highlights. This unique nature tour included stops in Anchorage, Kenai Fjords and Katmai National Park.
Galapagos Islands
In our last article in a series of Galapagos Islands fun facts, we learned about “enchanted” islands born of fire, as well as who discovered them and other interesting facts about the national park and island geography.
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 leopard cub in Kenya. Photographer Joshua Smalley photographed the leopard on a beautiful morning in the Maasai Mara. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Videos
The coyote is often described as the most vocal of North America’s mammals. While there’s a lot of overlap in the sounds that coyotes, dogs and other canid species make—from startled huffs to whines of greeting, and from antagonistic growls to barks of alarm—coyotes take “language” to whole other level.
