Conservation
Actor Jared Leto Joins WWF as Global Ambassador
You may recognize Jared Leto from popular films such as Requiem for a Dream, Dallas Buyers Club and front man for the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars.
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Conservation
Should We Vaccinate Wild Animals for Canine Distemper Virus?
The world’s tigers face considerable threats today: poaching, habitat loss, depletion of their prey and retaliatory kills by humans when the big cats take livestock. But now, a new threat has surfaced: the canine distemper virus (CDV).
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Travel Tales
Gout Convinced Me to Travel | Ben's Musings
Our founder Ben Bressler likes to reflect periodically on his experiences in nature. Ben’s Musings is a fun and thoughtful look at the people, places and events that remind us why responsible travel in the world’s most amazing natural places is so important.
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Travel Tales
Travel Tale: High Hopes in the Southwest Canyons
Say the words “American West” and right away you imagine vast, open plains, deep canyons and starting over. What is it about going West that has always meant hope in the American psyche, as if a new beginning could be had just by heading in a certain compass direction?
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Galapagos Islands
Photo of the Day: The (Sometimes) Lonely Life of the Waved Albatross
The waved albatross (also known as the Galapagos albatross) is the largest bird in the Galapagos Islands. It is also the only species of albatross found in the tropics. Waved albatrosses mate for life, a relationship that begins with one of the most fascinating and elaborate courtship rituals in the animal kingdom.
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News & More
Do National Park Crowds Breed Advocates—or Build Annoyance?
A trip to Denali National Park is a journey into wild America at its best. This six-million-acre landscape is bisected by only one, 92-mile ribbon of road. Travel along it, and you’ll see low-elevation, taiga forest morph into high, alpine tundra. It all culminates in North America’s tallest peak: the 20,310-foot Denali.
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African Safaris
Three Safari Camps Earn Spots on Travel + Leisure's Best New Hotels List
Travel + Leisure has unveiled its latest “It List,” this time featuring editors’ picks for the top 43 new hotels in the world. Their picks, which T + L describes as “game changers” and “transformative properties,” were vetted with a stay and took the lucky contributors “from Anguilla to Australia, from India to Italy.”
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Galapagos Islands
Crisis Averted! The Charles Darwin Foundation Raises $1.5 Million in Emergency Funding
The Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) is back in business! Not that they ever actually went out of business, but things were looking grim back in December, when the venerable Galapagos institution announced that it was facing a massive year-end budgetary shortfall and the prospect of closing its doors for good.
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Videos
Video of the Week: Orcas In Search Of the Perfect Belly Rub
Another fascinating orca video made the rounds on the internet this week, only this time the whales were displaying some very strange behavior.
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Galapagos Islands
State of Emergency Declared in Galapagos Freighter Incident
The government of Ecuador has declared a 180-day state of emergency in response to the grounding of the freighter Floreana on Jan. 28. The ship, which was carrying about 1,400 tons of cargo, including food and construction materials, and 13,000 gallons of fuel, ran aground in Naufragio Bay on San Cristobal.
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Videos
Video: New, 3-D Map of Greenland’s Ice Sheet Just Released
Norwegian-born Erik the Red was either a great marketer or just a truthful traveler, depending on which stories you choose to believe. Growing up, you probably learned in school that Erik the Red named the world’s largest noncontinental island “Greenland” (Grunland) to entice his neighbors and friends to settle the new country with him.
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African Safaris
Adorable Eight Year Old Sells Chocolates, Saves Rhinos
South Africa’s rhino poachers have a formidable, and adorable, new foe; eight-year-old Alyssa Carter. So far, her Alyssa’s Save the Rhinos campaign has raised $23,000 through the sale of homemade chocolates and rhino-themed products, and through donations from an ever growing number of supporters.