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Nature & Wildlife
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a lioness and her cubs in South Africa. In the MalaMala Game Reserve, mother lion led the cubs down to the riverbed so she could get a drink while the cubs played in the sand.
Conservation
WWF’s Meg Symington on saving the world’s largest rain forest I was only 21 years old in 1982 when I traveled to Manu National Park in the Peruvian Amazon to do field research on spider monkeys. I ended every day in awe of the forest.
Conservation
Recent genetic tests performed on two groups of about giant tortoises living on the island of Santa Cruz has revealed the existence of a brand new species. Previously, scientists believed that tortoises living on the western and eastern sides of Santa Cruz belonged to the same species.
Conservation
Ursus maritimus (the polar bear) is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species—one step away from the list’s official Endangered designation. Make no doubt about it, Frosty the Snowman is melting, and along with him, so is the sea ice that the King of the Arctic depends on.
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 peaceful pack of wild dog pups resting. While in South Africa, photographer Douglas Croft was able to spend an entire day at the den watching these playful pups.
Travel Tales
The people of Namibia possess a hard-to-grasp reverence for their landscape. No matter how little rain falls on the southern African country, or how strongly an unforgiving sun bakes the earth, or how swirly dust devils get when they whip across dry river beds, Namibians still respect the natural assets that surround them.
Conservation
Just a few months ago, in summer 2015, there were hopeful headlines for the Endangered Species Act (ESA). A new poll had been released that showed that nine out of every 10 American voters supported it. But another recent survey flies in the face of this good news.
Travel Tips
1. Grandpa what big horns you have I’ll never forget the first time I came across a giant moose – I was maybe 10 or 11, canoeing with my dad in the shallows of Moosewood Lake in Maine (does the name give it away?).
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose an action shot of two male lions fighting while a female looks on. Photographer JP Meiring captured this image while visiting Kruger National Park with Natural Habitat Adventures.
Videos
At this time of year, the minds of Hollywood TV and film producers aren’t the only ones full of thoughts of zombies, those rather stiff and stumbling, hungry and insatiable beings who want to eat the rest of us. Some creatures found in nature, too, have had their brains transformed, turning them into real-life zombies.
Travel Tips
Marsea Nelson traveled to the Galapagos on the Classic Galapagos Adventure. She shared what she learned with us. 1. Land iguanas are the supermodels of the Galapagos. They seemed to love posing for photos. I felt a bit like a fashion photographer, getting shots from different angles and different sides.
News & More
Would you mind living next door to a top predator? It’s a question I’ve asked you before. It seems that when it comes to bears, lions or wolves, we humans, as a whole, can’t get rid of our four-footed, predatory neighbors fast enough.
