Videos
Filmed and produced by Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinovic in association with BBC Earth, Wavelight is a timelapse of The Wave, Arizona’s famed rock formation. Comprised of sandstone that hardened over time, The Wave gets its unique form from years of rain and wind erosion.
Nature & Wildlife
Wildlife reserves offer safe haven to some of the planet’s most vulnerable species and give visitors the opportunity to view them responsibly. Here are five of our favorites: Pacaya Samiria Reserve, Peruvian Amazon Where: The headwaters of the Amazon in northern Peru.
Conservation
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.
Nature & Wildlife
Thankfully, the country of Costa Rica recognized the gift of its incredible biodiversity early on, and began protecting it with an extensive network of national parks, wildlife refuges and biological reserves. Our four Costa Rica itineraries visit numerous protected areas; here are just five of our favorite.
Nature & Wildlife
Although experts have been warning of an imminent sixth mass extinction for almost four years, to date most conservation appeals for battling the crisis have been, at best, attempts to stem the tide. None have claimed to be permanent and sustainable solutions—until now.
Nature & Wildlife
Tomorrow, September 3, 2014, will mark the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. In 1964, the bill that created the act passed the Senate by a vote of 73–12 and the House by 373–1.
Videos
Remember printed newsletters—those antiquated publications that used to inform you about all the current happenings and long-ago history from a place or an organization? In the past, many of our national parks had weekly or monthly newsletters. In the case of Yosemite, the publication was titled Nature Notes, and it ran from 1922 to 1961.
Videos
As wildlife enthusiasts, we’ve probably all done it: tried to sneak up on an unsuspecting animal so that we could get a better photographic shot.
Conservation
One hundred years ago this year, the last passenger pigeon on Earth died in the Cincinnati Zoo. A female named Martha, she has now become an icon for species extinction.
News & More
The spike in illegal wildlife trade continues: in 2013, poachers killed 1,004 rhinos in South Africa alone; and in 2012, some 15,000 elephants were slaughtered at 42 sites across 27 African countries, according to CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
Conservation
It’s been 44 years since Wisconsin’s—as this Wisconsinite is proud to say—Senator Gaylord Nelson inspired the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Modeled on the antiwar protests of the late 1960s, the original Earth Day began on university campuses as a national teach-in on environmental issues.
Travel Tips
In honor of National Parks Week, we wanted to share an article from Adventure Journal that had our office roaring with laughter last week: The 17 Best Bad Reviews of National Parks on Yelp. How could someone give anything less than a stellar review of America’s most beautiful natural treasures, you ask?
