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Nature Photography
My Antarctica guiding season begins with a classic Antarctica trip across the surging seas of the Drake Passage, followed by exquisite landscapes, absurdly hilarious penguins, and of course, the one thing that never ceases to surprise me: ice.
Nature & Wildlife
When UCLA Medical Center cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was asked one day to perform echocardiography on the failing heart of a Los Angeles Zoo emperor tamarin, a small monkey that evolved in the treetops of the Central and South American rain forests, she couldn’t have predicted how profoundly that act would change her thinking on…
Nature Photography
Antarctica. Nowhere on earth is more synonymous with exploration, extremes, and untouched wilderness. The majestic glaciers and abundance of wildlife are what attract those with an adventurous spirit to take an Antarctica cruise.
Nature & Wildlife
In their quest to run across nearly 250 miles in two weeks across southern Kenya to raise awareness for wildlife conservation, two young women found a respite over the weekend at a Natural Habitat camp.
Conservation
Dozens of customs officials bust through the door of a remote and quaint-looking farmhouse. The first thing Crawford Allan sees when he enters following the raid? A preserved chimpanzee head on a table in the living room, a macabre trinket on display like a family heirloom.
Videos
Watching a red fox hunt in the winter by slowly creeping forward, listening intently and then jumping high to pounce on prey can be pretty entertaining, but it turns out there’s a lot of science behind all the wild, deep-snow diving.
News & More
We are thrilled to announce that two of our Great Amazon River Cruise summer departures will be escorted by WWF conservation experts this summer. PAUL HARDY: May 23-May 31, 2014 Paul Hardy, director of strategic planning for WWF’s Latin America and Caribbean Program, will be the WWF guest lecturer on our May Great Amazon River Cruise.
Conservation
I think part of the reason that I love snow and ice is because I think winter is an endangered species. Have you ever chosen to travel to a particular place because you miss the colder winters of the past?
News & More
We’ve shared the same mission for several decades — to protect the world’s wild places and take you to see them. Now we’re sharing an avenue for telling you the stories of conservation and travel.
Travel Tips
I recently traveled through the Peruvian Amazon on our Great Amazon Voyage, and I was grateful for every single item I had stashed in my daypack.
Travel Tips
There’s no doubt that the print publishing world is rapidly changing, and perhaps nowhere is the revolving nature of the industry being played out more visibly than in the travel guidebook genre.
Videos
In theatrical circles, a “turkey” is a failure or a flop, but nothing could be further from the truth in the natural world.
