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Nature & Wildlife
Natural Habitat Adventures and World Wildlife Fund have teamed up to bring you another fun personality quiz, this time for Mother’s Day! Take the quiz to find out your inner-animal mothering style, and don’t forget to share your results with friends on Facebook and Twitter at the end.
Conservation
“On a wild, remote island in Lake Superior, gray wolves have lived and thrived for almost 70 years. In the island’s forests—which make up the majority of Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park—a wolf population that grew to almost 50 individuals once contributed to a biodiverse, healthy ecosystem.
African Safaris
There are botanical gardens and then there is Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden. Nestled beneath the imposing eastern flank of Table Mountain, its impossibly dramatic setting is just one of the reasons why many in the know have long considered Kirstenbosch to be the world’s most beautiful botanical garden.
Galapagos Islands
Our hats are off to officials in the Galapagos Islands for phasing out the use of plastic shopping bags in an effort to protect wildlife and reduce litter, pollution, and overall waste in the archipelago.
Conservation
This guest post is brought to us by Mandy Scott, Office Manager at Natural Habitat Adventures. Nat Hab’s Amazon Lodge extension is offered to our guests visiting the Galapagos. This past spring I had the opportunity to head deep into the Ecuadorian Rain Forest to visit Napo Wildlife Center.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our new Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose this Vitelline Masked Weaver in Tanzania. Photographer Marian Herz says he watched this bird making a nest, deciding to take a photo once it started doing gymnastics.
Videos
We know that the world’s forests—boreal, temperate and tropical—play a large role in sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2)—as long as drought, harvesting, insect damage and wildfires don’t overpower them. But we may have another “champion” helping us to combat rising CO2 levels: whales.
Conservation
Most of us who care about the environment, wildlife and our most precious places are familiar with depressing lists, such as the federal Endangered Species List, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) List of World Heritage in…
African Safaris
Need a little something to brighten up your Monday? Then check out this live 24-hour webcam trained on these five cheetah cubs at South Africa’s Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC). The cubs were born in on April 17th to a cheetah named Salome in the center’s maternity ward.
Galapagos Islands
A 16-passenger yacht ran aground near the town of Puerto Ayora on the island of Santa Cruz on Friday, April 24th, according to a press release issued by the Galapagos National Park.
Travel Tales
This travel tale is brought to you by Sarah Knight, Pre-Trip Services Manager at Natural Habitat Adventures. For people who don’t think they are into birding, a visit to a destination like Costa Rica can offer convincing reasons to reconsider!
Travel Tips
It’s April 23, 2015, and it’s lightly snowing here in the Midwest. That’s a bit unusual in late April, even for Wisconsin. Walking outside this morning, I watched big, styrofoam-like snowflakes land on the sleeve of the fleece jacket I had to pull out of winter storage.
