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Travel Tales
Seeing the polar bears is a magical experience that prompts joy, awe, and sometimes even poetry! On a recent Tundra Lodge & Town Adventure to experience the polar bears in Churchill, talented guest Cindy Tether wrote a beautiful poem describing her unforgettable vacation!
Videos
Predator meeting prey is part of the circle of life in nature. All living organisms need nutrition to produce the energy required to run their systems.
Nature & Wildlife
By Rachel Kramer, Program Officer, Wildlife Conservation and TRAFFIC My husband and I are scientists. We are fascinated by species and their habitats. When it came to selecting a place for our honeymoon, the Galapagos Islands—visited in as low-impact a manner a possible—was our dream.
Conservation
Native vegetation in many parts of the Galapagos Islands has been largely destroyed by introduced animals such goats and donkeys and invasive plants like wild blackberry and quinine. As a result, large swaths of once healthy ecosystems have either been turned into desert or have become overgrown with foreign and destructive vegetation.
Conservation
From the tiny monarch butterfly to the immense wildebeest of Africa, many of the world’s animal species take on great migrations. Those epic travels may involve seasonal journeys of thousands of miles, traversing multiple countries. For them, our human political boundaries have no meaning.
Nature Photography
Full of mystical landscapes and charasmatic pandas, China has is no doubt one of the best destinations in the world for nature photographers. Esteemed Natural Habitat guide Brad Josephs shares a collection of photographs that he captured while visiting three of China’s panda breeding sanctuaries on Natural Habitat Adventures’ China Photo Tour.
Conservation
When most people think of the Galapagos Islands, they understandably envision its remarkable and iconic animal life; massive lumbering tortoises, prehistoric looking marine iguanas, comical blue-footed boobies, and the like. But the plant life of the Galapagos is no less intriguing and obviously a critically important element in the unique ecosystems of the islands.
Travel Tales
Running 250 miles down the British Columbia, Canada, coast, the Great Bear Rain Forest is a wild expanse of western cedars, hemlocks and spruce trees. This 21 million-acre area—whose boundaries have never been precisely defined—is the largest coastal temperate rain forest on Earth.
Travel Tales
“I love their eyes,” said Gavin Lautenbach, Natural Habitat Adventures guide. “To capture a photograph of any cat in the wild, it’s about their eyes. I love their power and their strength. I love their relationships with their cubs and with other cats. I love their speed, power, precision and playfulness.”
Galapagos Islands
What happens when two Galapagos giant tortoises meet on a narrow pathway going in opposite directions? Thanks to this video from WWF we know the answer to this intriguing question. Like many other species, they establish which animal is dominant and go from there.
Nature & Wildlife
The United Nations’ report on climate change released on Sunday, November 2, 2014, predicted a gloomy future for the residents of planet Earth. It stated that the dangers of human-caused climate change are no longer debatable; they are real and are even now being felt all over the world.
Travel Tips
This travel tale is shared by Rick Guthke, Vice President of Natural Habitat Adventures Headquarters.
