Conservation
“Re:wild: The Search for Lost Species” sounds like the title of an action-adventure movie, and in a way, this ambitious and optimistic initiative contains all of the plot lines to keep us nature lovers on the edge of our seats.
Asia & The Pacific
The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) officially became extinct in January 2000, when a falling tree landed on Celia, the world’s last wild Pyrenean ibex. Unfortunately, what led up to that unhappy incident was a sad history for this wild mountain goat. Several species of ibex once lived across Africa, Asia and Europe.
News & More
So much of what happens here at Nat Hab goes on behind the scenes. The amount of work it takes to get our conservation message out to the world is huge, and we couldn’t do it without some incredibly talented and passionate people helping us. Drum roll, please, as we introduce our two summer interns!
Asia & The Pacific
“Sustainable, sensitive ecotourism has played an integral role in helping to bolster wild tiger numbers, with the economic impact of visitors to India’s tiger reserves benefitting the communities nearby.”
Conservation
Our planet’s climate is changing before our eyes. Weather events have gotten more extreme, and we’re in the midst of a sixth mass extinction.
Nature & Wildlife
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown, isolated population of polar bears living in Southeast Greenland that has found a unique way to survive.
Nature & Wildlife
Greyhounds have been a part of my life for more than two decades. In fact, in 2019, when my husband and I got the call inviting us to visit the local kennel to adopt what would be our 10th greyhound over a span of 26 years, we found our new “fur baby” within 30 minutes.
Canada & the North
A “time line” of nearly any animal’s existence is an almost-oxymoron, if you ask me. Time lines can make things seem as if they progressed in a linear manner. But life is a lot messier than that. Sometimes things go forward, then back again, and they can even do loop the loops and veer sideways.
Alaska
Now is the critical moment to sign on and support Bristol Bay conservation…again The final battle is intensifying in an epic three-decade struggle between an open-pit mine and Earth’s largest sockeye salmon run.
Nature & Wildlife
A pod of orcas grabbed the headlines in late March 2019. Researchers performing their annual dolphin and whale surveys off the southwestern coast of Australia stumbled across an orca attack on a healthy, adult blue whale. They recorded the event, which had never been documented before.
Nature & Wildlife
Without a doubt, we humans are altering the natural environment. Because of our activities, we are now experiencing melting glaciers; rising sea levels; warming oceans; and more frequent and intense droughts, heat waves and storms—all the result of human-caused climate change. These effects wreak havoc on people’s communities and livelihoods.
Conservation
SQUID The shortfin squid inhabits the continental shelf and slope waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to the central east coast of Florida.
