Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Lion Hugs

    Apr 8, 2016 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected lions from the Ngala Private Reserve. Photographer Douglas Croft took this photo while watching lion cubs playing in South Africa. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Hippo Mom & Baby

    Apr 1, 2016 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a hippo mother and her baby. Photographer Gary Tyson took this photo while on safari in Tanzania. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Videos

    Video: Watch as Elephants “Check In” at a Lodge in Zambia

    Mar 31, 2016 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    The saying goes you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But what about elephants? When the builders of a five-star lodge in Zambia constructed their hotel over an ancient elephant path, they assumed the pachyderms that annually used the trail in order to get to the area’s bountiful mango tree would reroute their course.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Elephants on Parade

    Mar 25, 2016 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected elephants on parade. Photographer Ed Dornfeld took this photo while on safari in Tanzania. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Videos

    Video: Protecting Nature’s Cleanup Crews, the Vultures

    Mar 22, 2016 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Because of many, current cultural biases around the world, vultures don’t immediately bring up in us feelings of empathy and likability. But they should. According to BirdLife International, vultures are the bringers of life—not the takers. They clean our world and halt disease, stopping the spread of anthrax, botulism, rabies and tuberculosis.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Zebras in Tanzania

    Mar 18, 2016 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a scene from Ngorongoro Crater in secluded Tanzania. Photographer Ed Dornfeld snapped this photo of three zebras who lined up to graze in front of him.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Baboon Enjoying Sunset

    Mar 4, 2016 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a baboon silhouetted against a Serengeti sunset. Photographer Andrew Lasken took this photo while on safari in Tanzania. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • African Safaris

    A sign of hope: Rare Western Lowland Gorilla Twins Born

    Mar 1, 2016 · iSafari

    At World Wildlife Fund (WWF) conservation program site in Dzanga-Sangha in the Central African Republic (CAR), researchers and environmentalists have worked to habituate and conserve Western Lowland gorillas over the past 16 years. At the end of January, the first western gorilla twins ever recorded in Dzanga Sangha were born.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Zebra Love

    Feb 26, 2016 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose these necking zebras on the Serengeti. Photographer Karin Leperi took this photo while on safari in Tanzania. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Conservation

    Vanquished Vultures and Criminal Coyotes: Underappreciated Wildlife

    Feb 23, 2016 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Poaching has pushed species of elephants and rhinos to the brink of extinction. Poachers are also bringing another type of animal to the edge of existence, but I bet you haven’t even heard of its imminent demise at their hands. I’m talking about vultures.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Lion Attraction

    Feb 19, 2016 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose two lions in the Serengeti. Photographer Barbara Hayton took this photo while on safari in Tanzania. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • African Safaris

    Black Rhinos Survive in the Deserts of Namibia

    Feb 15, 2016 · iSafari

    Due largely to the high value of powdered rhino horns in traditional Chinese medicine, poachers killed 98 percent of the rhinos in Africa between 1960 and 1995. Even now, rhino populations continue to decline rapidly around the world.