News & More
Cod: Save the Species or Preserve East Coast Economies?
Warming ocean temperatures are diminishing the number of polar bears, causing a loss of Arctic sea ice and breaking up the East Antarctica ice sheet.
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Travel Tips
Cruising in Style in the Amazon: Must See & Do
There is nothing quite like exploring the world’s largest and greatest rainforest than on a unique and intimate Amazon River cruise.
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African Safaris
Photo of the Day: Asleep Beneath the Kalahari Skies
As you might imagine, few places can rival Botswana’s Kalahari Desert when it comes to spectacular stargazing. Because there is almost no light pollution in this sparsely inhabited corner of the globe, the adjective star-studded doesn’t begin to do these skies justice.
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African Safaris
A Man, a Motorcycle, a Drone, and the Great Migration
Christian Ghammachi wasn’t the first person to embark upon an epic motorcycle trip across Africa. But he may have been the first to bring a drone along to capture aerial footage of his adventure.
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African Safaris
Serengeti-Maasai Mara Elephant Census Offers Some Rare Good News for Wildlife Lovers
There is a lot of really bad conservation news coming out of Africa these days. Most notably, surging demand for illegal wildlife products in Asian markets has created a devastating rhino and elephant poaching crisis across the continent.
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African Safaris
Wildebeest vs Crocodile vs Hippo: Jaw Dropping Photos from Londolozi
One of the magical things about being on safari is that you can pretty much expect the unexpected to happen at any time. But few unexpected wildlife sightings can rival what Nick Kleer, a guide at South Africa’s Londolozi Pioneer Camp, saw on January 29th of this year.
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African Safaris
Johannesburg is Rough Guides' Number One City in the World in 2015
The editors at Rough Guides recently shared their picks for the top travel destinations of 2015 and Johannesburg has claimed the number one spot in the top cities category.
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Nature & Wildlife
11 Wild Reasons to Visit Costa Rica (in Photos)
Costa Rica is literally rich. In wildlife. This tiny country has built up an incredible reputation as a sustainable destination founded on the idea that its natural resources are to be valued in theory and practice. By protecting these resources, Costa Rica’s people have also benefited.
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News & More
The Climate Change Link to the Syrian War
I think Britain’s Prince Charles may be on to something. A longtime environmentalist, the heir to the British throne stated on November 23, 2015—just a week before the climate change conference in Paris—that the world’s failure to tackle climate change is a root cause of Syria’s civil war.
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Travel Tips
Lonely Planet’s 2016 Best Places to Travel: See 5 of Them with Nat Hab!
Lonely Planet has announced its 2016 Best in Travel awards, and we at Nat Hab are excited to showcase several of them in our collection of the World’s Greatest Nature Journeys! They couldn’t be more diverse, as destinations go. Which of these hot spots is on your must-experience list for 2016?
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Keeping a Wary Eye Out
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose Alaskan brown bears in Hallo Bay. Photographer Tony Boot took this photo as the mother bear kept a watch on a male grizzly nearby. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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Nature & Wildlife
Marveling at Madagascar
Exploring one of the planet’s most unique–and imperiled–biodiversity hotspots with Nat Hab and WWF. Mandehandeha mahita raha. Those who travel see much. I was raised on stories of the geat red island. In the 1960s, my mother moved to Madagascar, and in 1972 my parents met in the city of the thousand–Antananarivo.