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Conservation
For 40 years WWF has been working in the Amazon, a biodiverse and ecologically important rain forest that produces more than 90 billion metric tons of carbon and also houses more than 30 million people and contains one in ten known species on Earth. It’s importance cannot be over stressed.
News & More
Most of us see the benefits of the world’s Olympic Games: they are some of the very few times nations come together to showcase their most beautiful landscapes and best athletes. For the hosting cities and countries, the hope is that the events will result in economic gains through tourism, marketing and other means.
Travel Tales
Wendy Redal, Nat Hab’s editorial director, recently returned from Base Camp Greenland where she and a group of 12 guests enjoyed a thrilling adventure during the camp’s inaugural season. Read her firsthand reports from the field here at Good Nature Travel.
African Safaris
Last month, Kathy Long was on safari in South Africa’s Mala Mala Private Game Reserve when she witnessed an incredible scene; an adult male lion attempting to kill a malnourished sub-adult female.
Galapagos Islands
Visit the Galapagos Islands and you’re sure to see plenty of Galapagos sea lions lazing in the sand. They’re usually pretty good at making themselves comfortable. This one, however, decided to use a rock for a pillow for some reason. She still looks pretty happy though.
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 leopard mom guiding her cub through the Serengeti. Photographer Barbara Hayton captured this moment while on safari in Tanzania with Nat Hab. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Videos
This year, 2015, marks the 20th anniversary of the wolf’s return to Yellowstone National Park. On January 12, 1995, eight gray wolves from Alberta, Canada, were reintroduced into the park and became the first to live there since they were extirpated in 1926—an absence of 69 years.
News & More
If you happened to be watching NBC’s TODAY Show this morning, you may have seen a familiar face – Nat Hab’s own Don Martinson, Director of Travel Industry Relations, was featured in a segment about top travel trends from Virtuoso Travel Week!
Conservation
We all love our national parks. They are our places of solace and refuge; of natural beauty and outdoor adventure. They afford us the chance to get close to what’s left of what is still wild. Of course, there is an inherent conflict in that.
Nature & Wildlife
By Wendy Redal, Editorial Director at Natural Habitat Adventures From a distance, Base Camp Greenland is hard to discern. The seven raised tent-cabins perched on the rocky shoreline blend in with the mountains that flank either side of the broad glacial valley that meets this protected bay.
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 grizzly bear coming face-to-face with his potential dinner in Brooks Falls. Photographer Jeff Goldberg captured this photo while visiting Alaska with Nat Hab.
African Safaris
Have you ever dreamt of taking award-winning, National Geographic-style wildlife photos while on safari, yet have little interest in buying expensive photography equipment or spending hours and hours of your precious time learning how to use your camera? Well, unfortunately I can’t help you. No one can.
