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While polar bears are typically spotted in the small town of Churchill, Manitoba, researchers are now using a new technology that captures high-resolution satellite images of the arctic to count polar bears from space! Counting polar bear populations is important for quantifying the effects of global climate change on the vulnerable species.
News & More
World’s Greatest Maritime Mystery Solved: Check out this EXCITING NEWS involving One Ocean Expeditions, one of Nat Hab’s adventure cruise operators! Searching for a lost ship or sunken treasure is a staple in the annals of adventure travel.
Videos
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.
Conservation
If you are lucky enough to visit the Galapagos Islands, chances are you’ll take a water taxi at some point during your visit. They are the small boats, usually about 20-feet long, that transfer passengers from cruise boats to shore, from one part of an island to another, and even from island to island.
Travel Tips
Regardless of which of our snorkeling tours you choose, a few things are for certain: You’ll explore incredible underwater worlds, spending most of your time in the water—with two or three snorkeling outings a day—and your guide will be the most knowledgeable in the region.
Nature & Wildlife
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…
Travel Tales
Croc ahead! Our front boatman named C-Company signaled by pointing to the left riverbank – and a few of the paddlers up front noticed a long, black form slither quickly into the Okavango River. We immediately formed a single tight row of yellow kayaks behind our guide and sped past the beast’s entry site.
Nature & Wildlife
Think it’s too late to go to Antarctica this year? Not so! There are some fantastic discounts being offered on our remaining 2014 Antarctica cruises. We’re celebrating with a month full of fascinating stories about Antarctica that are sure to put this continent on your bucket-list, if it’s not already!
Galapagos Islands
According to a study published by researchers from the University of Western Australia, nearly half the vegetation canopy in at least one part of the Galapagos Islands is comprised of non-native shrubs, trees and grasses. The study focused on the humid highlands of the island of Santa Cruz, the most populous of the Galapagos Islands.
Travel Tales
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…
Nature Photography
The Amazon river dolphin isn’t the easier creature to photograph, especially in the murky, brown waters of the Amazon. When our guide spotted them as we glided by the village of Requena along the Amazon river, I began to snap photos in the general vicinity where they were surfacing.
Galapagos Islands
The taxidermied remains of “Lonesome George,” the last Pinta Island giant tortoise, will go on display later this month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. After George was discovered on Pinta in 1972 scientists spent decades trying, without success, to get him to reproduce in captivity.
