Conservation
My Week with Polar Bears
This is a guest post by Alicia Smith, Programs Marketing Manager at World Nomads. Alicia recently returned from a polar bear tour with Nat Hab and WWF. Walking home from dinner I have never felt so alert.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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Nature Photography
Scouting the Skies and Combing the Beaches in the Galapagos Islands
Ever since the Galapagos Islands first appeared in an atlas in 1570, people have been curious about the archipelago and the unique animals and flora that abound there.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Yellowstone National Park–Ebola Connection: Could It Help Protect More Natural Places?
Recently, when a drone crashed in Grand Prismatic Spring in Midway Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, it sparked a public debate about the use of such devices in our jointly owned, national treasures and the protections for such lands that we currently have in place.
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Videos
Video: Red-Tailed Hawk and Bull Snake Mix-Up
Predator meeting prey is part of the circle of life in nature. All living organisms need nutrition to produce the energy required to run their systems.
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Travel Tales
Great Bear Rain Forest Rambles and Spirit Bear Sightings
Running 250 miles down the British Columbia, Canada, coast, the Great Bear Rain Forest is a wild expanse of western cedars, hemlocks and spruce trees. This 21 million-acre area—whose boundaries have never been precisely defined—is the largest coastal temperate rain forest on Earth.
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Nature & Wildlife
New UN Report on Climate Change: Only 50 PPM of Greenhouse Gases Now Stands between Us and Disaster
The United Nations’ report on climate change released on Sunday, November 2, 2014, predicted a gloomy future for the residents of planet Earth. It stated that the dangers of human-caused climate change are no longer debatable; they are real and are even now being felt all over the world.
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Videos
Video of Lil’ Drac: An Orphaned Baby Bat
Bram Stoker is probably to thank for our fascination with bats at this time every year. In 1897 when he penned Dracula, the story of a human vampire who could transform into a bat, he cemented our associating bats with all things scary from the late 19th century on.
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Conservation
National Parks Poster Project: Q & A with Artist Rob Decker
A photographer and graphic artist living in Nederland, Colorado, Rob Decker is currently working on creating WPA-style posters for all 59 of our national parks. He hopes to have them completed by the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary in 2016.
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Videos
Nature Finally Talks Back—And It Has Some Tough Words for Us
I’m not sure when the conversation about keeping our air and water clean and conserving our natural resources and wildlife became such a political, polarizing issue.
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Videos
Video: Fiji's Greatest Success Story
Within Fiji’s volcanic heart, there lies a beautiful river and a great ecotourism success story. The Upper Navua River has been so closely tied to the local indigenous communities for generations that locals call the river “the highway to their ancestors.” Unfortunately, developmental pressures have threatened the river and its benefits to native communities.
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Videos
Video: the Pronghorn Path, the First Federally Protected Wildlife Corridor
For nearly 6,000 years, pronghorn have made an annual migration from their summer range around the highlands of Grand Teton National Park to their wintering grounds, located about 170 miles south in the sagebrush-covered Upper Green River Valley near the town of Pinedale, Wyoming.
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Nature & Wildlife
Counting Wild Tigers by 2016: Will It Help Save Them?
On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 13 countries that have wild tiger populations agreed to take part in a global census of the endangered big cats. The hope is that this count will then lead to improved policies to protect them in order to meet a goal of doubling their numbers by 2022—a plan known as Tx2.