Travel Tales
Traveler Story: A Secluded Botswana Safari
“My favorite moment of my Secluded Botswana Safari was watching a grandmom lioness finishing off her latest meal with her grandkids.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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News & More
Be a Wildlife Naturalist During August’s Solar Eclipse
On Monday, August 21, 2017—for the first time in nearly a century—a total solar eclipse will cross the United States from coast to coast. A solar eclipse happens when a new moon moves between the Earth and the sun, blocking all or some of the sun’s rays.
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Conservation
Losing Wildlife Hurts Biodiversity—and Our Bottom Lines
Wildlife tourism—tourism specifically based on encounters with undomesticated animals—accounts for 20 to 40 percent of the total $1 trillion annual, global tourism industry. This comes from a paper published in late 2015 in the peer-reviewed, science journal PLOS ONE. The paper further states that wildlife tourism is the leading foreign-exchange earner in several countries.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: A Ray of Hope
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a lion cub in Zambia. While on safari, photographer Varun Yennemadi came to where a lioness had killed a wildebeest and her cubs were reaping the rewards.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Play Time
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected lion cubs running through the Serengeti. Photographer Steve Grodin watched these young lions playing together while on safari in Tanzania. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Nuzzle
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a loving scene out of Serengeti National Park. Photographer Steve Grodin was on safari in Tanzania when he took this photograph of a mother and her young nuzzling one another.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Wildebeests in the Sunset
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a herd of wildebeests at sunset in Botswana. Photographer Deborah Carter captured this stunning moment while out on a drive as a herd passed by her vehicle.
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Videos
Videos: Watch as Robotic Animals Secretly “Spy” on Wildlife
Camera traps, GPS tracking and radio-collaring are all tools that researchers have traditionally used to study the wildlife that shares the planet with us. But it seems there’s now another method—an ingenious one—that allows us to unobtrusively infiltrate communities in the natural world without letting our very presence alter them.
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Nature & Wildlife
When Animals Gather, Our Language Gets Lyrical
When we get together to appreciate the arts, for political purposes, for social interactions or simply for support, we can be called, among other things, an audience, a band, a bunch, a cohort, a crowd, a group, a mob or a troupe.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Water Crossing
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a moment from a drive in Zambia. Photographer Jim Trojanowski was on safari with Nat Hab near Busanga Bush Camp when his group witnessed this lioness leaping across a waterway.
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Travel Tales
Traveler Story: Botswana’s Green Season Photo Safari
Traveler L. Horton captured the photographs shown below during a Botswana’s Green Season Photo Safari with Natural Habitat Adventures in February 2017. — L. Horton | Botswana’s Green Season Photo Safari | February 2017 What’s Your Nature Travel Story?
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Impala Reflections
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected impalas lined up at a water hole. Photographer Patricia Rosen took this photo while on safari in the Okavango Delta. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?