Travel Tips
Know Before You Go: 10 Snorkeling Tips for an Undersea Odyssey
Snorkeling gives travelers the best of all worlds: The chance to see brilliant and vibrant seascapes without the expense and special training that scuba diving requires.
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Nature & Wildlife
Botswana's Okavango Delta named 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage Site
Northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta was recently inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage Site, among the ranks of 26 other extraordinary places including India’s Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area, the Phillipines’ Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary, and Denmark’s Stevns Klint geological site.
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Videos
Video of the Week: Namibian Nights & Safari Sleepouts
There’s much more to an African safari than the iconic wildlife that draws most people there. Namibia is no exception. Often, there is just as much wonderment in things like Namibia’s enchanting quivetrees, mysterious dead camelthorn treas, and the ethereal night sky blanketed with millions of swirling stars.
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Conservation
Can a Pioneering Conservation Effort Save One of the Most Critically Endangered Species in the Galapagos?
For the first time ever, conservationists in the Galapagos Islands have hand-reared a species of bird in an effort to save it from impending extinction.
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Galapagos Islands
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Galapagos
What is your ideal way to explore the Galapagos Islands? Is it to kayak against the tide, warming your muscles as you cruise past lava rocks covered in marine iguanas? Or carefully photograph every marquis species that left Charles Darwin wide eyed? Or snorkel among green turtles and sea lions?
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Conservation
International Tiger Day is Tomorrow!
via Halesowen News This gorgeous tiger from England’s Dudley Zoo has been chosen as the face of this year’s International Tiger Day tomorrow, July 29, 2014. The Sumatran tigress, Daseep, is vital in bringing her species back from the brink and is rated as the world’s second most important genetic Sumatran female.
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Conservation
How Well-Meaning Travelers Inadvertently Help Poachers
Outside Magazine recently profiled a new way poachers are using technology to locate species such rhinos in the wild. What technology you ask? The GPS coordinates from your travel photos. Learn what you can do as a traveler to help stop wildlife crime.
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Videos
Video of the Week: A Grizzly Cub Swatted My GoPro!
Take a peek at this great footage from our wonderful guide Brad Josephs on a recent Coastal Alaskan Grizzly Adventure! Watch as a curious brown bear cub on the Alaska Peninsula approaches a group of wildlife photographers Brad was guiding and then decides to swat a GoPro he posted on a pole in the sand.
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Videos
Video: Potoo Bird in Full Camo
Day-to-day survival is a challenge in the wild, especially if those looking to eat you are bigger or faster than you are. That’s the reason why many species have developed methods of camouflage.
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News & More
Travel & Leisure Chats with WWF on Twitter
Travel + Leisure magazine invited select experts from the travel industry, including WWF’s Elissa Poma, to join a live Twitter chat last month to discuss adventure travel. Here’s a recap of the conversation: Travel + Leisure: What emerging adventure destinations are on your radar right now?
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Nature & Wildlife
Bam Bam the Ram: Is Feeding Wildlife Ever OK?
When we feed wild animals, the result can be just as lethal as if we had poisoned them. But is feeding wild animals always wrong?
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Galapagos Islands
Top Four Experiences in the Galapagos Islands
Last year, World Wildlife Fund’s Heather Finn and Kristina Griffin traveled to the Galapagos Islands for the first time. Heather works as Manager of Digital User Experience, and Kristina is Deputy Director for Cause Marketing Program. It was tough for them to narrow it down, but here are their top four moments in the Galapagos.