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Within Fiji’s volcanic heart, there lies a beautiful river and a great ecotourism success story. The Upper Navua River has been so closely tied to the local indigenous communities for generations that locals call the river “the highway to their ancestors.” Unfortunately, developmental pressures have threatened the river and its benefits to native communities.
Conservation
WWF’s film, Pride of Namibia, was recently named the winner of the inaugural film competition, Adventure in Motion with Yahoo Travel. The film was chosen out of 150 film submissions and revealed at the 2014 Adventure Travel World Summit in Ireland.
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For nearly 6,000 years, pronghorn have made an annual migration from their summer range around the highlands of Grand Teton National Park to their wintering grounds, located about 170 miles south in the sagebrush-covered Upper Green River Valley near the town of Pinedale, Wyoming.
Conservation
Cassie O’Connor’s commitment to conservation deepened after college when she co-managed a forestry station in Indonesia. The pristine Indonesian environment and rich culture have since brought her back repeatedly and have inspired her in various conservation roles she’s played over the years.
Conservation
In January, marine scientists from the Charles Darwin Foundation captured and tagged several tiger sharks near the Galapagos Islands for the first time ever. The goal of the project was to gain a better understanding of the sharks’ migratory movements in an effort to improve conservation efforts around the world.
Nature & Wildlife
On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 13 countries that have wild tiger populations agreed to take part in a global census of the endangered big cats. The hope is that this count will then lead to improved policies to protect them in order to meet a goal of doubling their numbers by 2022—a plan known as Tx2.
Travel Tales
Our Churchill Polar Bear tour season officially kicked off this past weekend, and we couldn’t be more excited here at Natural Habitat Adventures! Meet one of our veteran polar bear guides, Sandra Elvin, and learn how she fell in love with the natural world.
Conservation
The non-profit WildAid is working on an ambitious, multi-year plan to overhaul the cargo handling and quarantine procedures between mainland South America and the Galapagos Islands in order to prevent the arrival of potentially harmful new invasive species within the archipelago.
Travel Tales
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.
Nature & Wildlife
Thankfully, the country of Costa Rica recognized the gift of its incredible biodiversity early on, and began protecting it with an extensive network of national parks, wildlife refuges and biological reserves. Our four Costa Rica itineraries visit numerous protected areas; here are just five of our favorite.
Nature & Wildlife
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.
Galapagos Islands
There are plenty of benches in the Galapagos Islands, but very few places to actually sit. This is because there are few things that a Galapagos sea lion loves more than lazing away the day on a nice hard bench. And as this video shows, it doesn’t matter if you were there first.
