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Last month, I flew to Vancouver, British Columbia, to monitor the printing of the latest and greatest Catalog of World’s Greatest Nature Journeys for Nat Hab and World Wildlife Fund. Every spring, I wonder how it’s even possible to improve our catalog.
Travel Tales
The rickety bus from Quito to Otavalo in Ecuador was bursting with a rich cacophony of Otavaleños women chattering in Quechua, yellow chickens clucking nervously from small bamboo cages, and the bus radio filling the coach with the popular song of “El Condor Pas” in Spanish.
Galapagos Islands
This post was written by Natural Habitat Adventures Chief Exploratory Officer Olaf Malver.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected the 2016 Wildlife Photo Contest Experts’ Choice Winner. Photographer Cheryl Ramalho captured this chimpanzee’s contemplative moment trekking through the dense forests of Uganda with Nat Hab. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Videos
Thanks to some newly discovered aerial photographs from the 1930s, we can now see the retreat of some Greenland glaciers through time. Watch!
Nature Photography
Mac Mirabile with WWF’s Maketing and Communications team is not only a wiz with numbers–he’s also a talented wildlife photographer with a particular interest in photographing birds. We sat down with him to get some insight into his hobby. Check out his wildlife, travel, and landscape photographs on his Flickr page.
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Black Lives Matter. Blue Lives Matter. Veterans Matter. You could probably name a dozen other organizations that work to convince us that all human lives have value. And while most of us can probably get behind the majority of these causes, it turns out that a third of us think nonhuman-animal lives matter, too.
Nature Photography
The Andes mountains of southern Chile and Argentina have some of the most iconic and sweeping scenery in the world, so it’s no wonder the natural wonders of Patagonia have seduced photographers for as long as there have been cameras to capture its wild, poetic landscapes.
Videos
I shot this video after traveling for two hours off the coast of Isla Holbox by motor boat on Natural Habitat Adventure’s Swimming with Mexico’s Whale Sharks Adventure.
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 moment from Algonquin Park, Canada. Photographer Chris St. Michael came upon this curious fox who sat patiently while he got his picture taken. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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This week, on Thursday, August 25, the National Park Service will celebrate its centennial. This year has been filled with campaigns and events to commemorate our shared and cherished public lands. But underneath all the festivities lies a dark shadow.
Latin America
By Kate Willingham, Destination Manager at Natural Habitat Adventures I’ve always loved butterflies. Growing up, I would tromp around our backyard looking for Eastern tiger swallowtails or their caterpillar counterpart, catching them with my bare hands, housing them in butterfly terrariums, and every now and then bringing them to my kindergarten show-and-tell.
