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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 selected an egret in flight, capturing breakfast. Photographer Jeffrey West captured this image while photographing at a lake in Texas. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Videos
A picture is worth a thousand words—or at least that’s the idea behind the actions of Jeremy Buckingham, a Greens Party member of the Australian Parliament.
News & More
Scarface is dead. Otherwise known as Bear No. 211, the Yellowstone National Park bruin was shot and killed just outside the park in Gallatin National Forest in November 2015. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed the death just two weeks ago, on April 25, 2016.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose two brothers prowling the Serengeti together. Photographer Brad Starry took this photo while on safari in Tanzania. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Galapagos Islands
For many, experiencing Galapagos boobies—a rather funny named bird—are a highlight of any trip to this enchanted archipelago. It may be because of their accessibility in large colonies that nest along the walking trails.
Conservation
The image of a polar bear stranded on an ice floe. Herds of thousands of walruses hauled out on land, deprived of their sunning platforms of choice: sea ice. Videos from NASA simulating how carbon dioxide moves through the atmosphere and travels around the globe.
Travel Tales
“Ethiopia? What’s in Ethiopia?” When I mention that I’ve spent the past ten months living and working in this mountainous country in the Horn of Africa, most people are a bit stumped. I’ve been working in the travel trade in Ethiopia, I explain. More quizzical looks. “People travel there?”
Nature & Wildlife
In 2015, Shubash Lohani, Director of Sustainable Landscapes within WWF’s Forests team, was traveling through Nepal & Bhutan with a group of WWF supporters. Two days were left in the trip, when a devastating earthquake hit Nepal on April 25th, registering 7.8 on the Richter scale.
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 lion cub ready to pounce near a waterhole in Serengeti National Park. Photographer Ed Dornfeld captured this moment while on safari in Tanzania. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Videos
Imagine a world without birdsong. That’s the scenario a new documentary, titled The Messenger, wants you to envision, because it could actually happen sooner than we think. Songbird populations throughout the world are in trouble. By some estimates, we may have lost almost half of the songbirds that filled the skies only 40 years ago.
Nature & Wildlife
Nearly half – 114 out of 229 – of all natural World Heritage sites are threatened by harmful industrial activities, according to a new WWF report. However, millions of people rely on these sites and its natural resources for basic human needs such as water, food and shelter.
Conservation
When timber framer Will Elwell heard that a natural gas pipeline was going to run through his town of Ashfield, Massachusetts, he decided to take action by making a visual statement.
