Travel Tales
Photos from a Polar Bear Travel Season
If, like me, you like to travel, there’s probably one particular place away from home that just seems to stick in your heart and head—the one spot where your wanderlust was first awakened.
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Nature & Wildlife
WWF Report: 52 Percent of the World’s Biodiversity Is Gone
When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released its Living Planet Report 2014 on September 30, it wasn’t the usual doom-and-gloom environmental news story that is forgotten the next day.
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Videos
Video: Wildlife Corridors from Around the World
Food, water, shelter and the freedom to travel—these are the fundamental needs of wildlife. In fact, according to the National Wildlife Federation, for many species that last-listed essential could mean the difference between survival and extinction. Our open spaces, however, are increasingly being chopped up and fragmented.
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Nature & Wildlife
Bison and Wolves: Is Culling Once-Threatened Species Justified?
As many as 900 Yellowstone National Park American bison may be exterminated in winter 2014-2015. It’s estimated that our nation’s last, pure herd of free-ranging bison that have managed to continuously live on their native grounds currently numbers at 4,900. That means that a fifth of this near-threatened species is soon to be killed.
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Conservation
9 Stories That Will Inspire You To Travel Differently
When you travel the world to see unique wildlife and diverse landscapes, you are also helping the local communities you visit! Saturday is the UN’s World Tourism Day and this year’s theme is “Tourism & Community Development”, a subject near and dear to our hearts at Nat Hab and WWF.
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Nature & Wildlife
Half Earth: Could Setting Aside 50 Percent of the World for Wildlife Really Work?
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.
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Videos
Video: Model Management in the Great Bear Rain Forest
The Great Bear Rain Forest in British Columbia, Canada, has often been described as a “bastion of biodiversity.” Not only is it home to grizzly bears, black bears and spirit bears, it has a human history that goes back 10,000 years.
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Nature & Wildlife
New Snowmobile Lottery System: Will It Alter Yellowstone’s Winter Solitude?
While anyone who has traveled to Yellowstone National Park knows that the sights alone are enough to take your breath away, I’m always struck by how unprepared I am for what I would describe as the “timeless sounds” of Yellowstone: the howls of wolves on the wind, the yips of coyotes on the hills…
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Travel Tales
Grizzly Bear Travels: A Photo Essay
Being close enough to view a grizzly bear in the wild inspires feelings of awe and nostalgia: wonder at their size and power, and a longing for an America that once was—when the land was wild and pristine, and we newcomers were still adventurers exploring something big and far beyond anything else we had…
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Conservation
A Drone Crashed in Yellowstone: Do We Need Tighter Security in Our National Parks?
Anyone who has visited Yellowstone National Park can attest to the beauty of Grand Prismatic Spring, a body of water that has a deep, brilliant blue color at its center and measures 370 feet in diameter.
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Videos
Video: Spend a Year in the Forest in Three Minutes
Forests are important for our welfare for a very long list of reasons, a few of which are: • they provide us with medicines; • they manufacture breathable air: just one adult, leafy tree can produce as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year; • they fight flooding; •…
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Travel Tales
Photographs from an Antarctica Expedition
I have a fixation with ice and the world’s cold places. I think it’s mostly because I’m convinced that winter is an endangered “species.” That’s why the poles have always called to me.