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News & More
We’re just about to launch a new interactive website to help travelers research and plan African safaris. It’s called iSafari.com, and it’s the most comprehensive Africa safari-planning tool, from Amboseli to Zanzibar! Imagine TripAdvisor™ for African safaris, and you have iSafari.com. iSafari.com is simply the best safari-planning resource available… and we need your help to make it even better!
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It was supposed to be a fall wedding in the heart of Yosemite National Park’s beautiful, famed valley.
Nature & Wildlife
Polar bears were hunted from the 1600s right through the mid-1970s. Though hunting is now regulated, current polar bear populations face a new challenge: climate change. Sea ice is melting earlier and forming later each year, leaving polar bears less time to hunt.
Travel Tales
Our Galapagos Hiking and Kayaking expedition has grown to be one of our most popular trips. Why? No doubt it has a lot to do with the trip’s charismatic and knowledgeable naturalist guide, Luis Rodriguez, aka Champi.
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By Becky Pahl, NHA Adventure Prep Specialist Meet Elsa Bailey. Elsa is en route to Churchill right now to realize a lifelong dream of seeing polar bears in the wild, as Nat Hab’s 2013 Polar Bear season kicks off today.
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As many of you may know, Natural Habitat Adventures’ headquarters is on the edge of Boulder, CO, an area that was devastated by the Colorado floods less than a month ago.
Videos
In the rain forests of Peru, the average annual rainfall measures 79 inches. That not only creates lush, green jungles filled with a diversity of life but dangerous environments, too—especially if you’re a caterpillar aspiring to become a moth. Most caterpillars construct tightly knit coverings in out-of-the-way places in which to undergo their transformations.
Conservation
Did you know that Antarctica is home to more than 10,000 species of penguins, whales, and seals – just to name a few – that are found nowhere else on earth? Unfortunately, Antarctica’s wildlife is facing immense pressure from commercial fishing and climate change.
Nature Photography
With hundreds of staggeringly beautiful, ice-choked fjords, snowcapped summits, rushing waterfalls and flowing glaciers, Greenland is a paradise for cold-place fans, such as myself. And, if you seek remote and unpopulated corners, Greenland satisfies on that count, too.
News & More
Join veteran Nat Hab expedition leader Melissa Scott for a live virtual tour of one of the world’s greatest phenomena, the ethereal northern lights! Adventure travelers: you don’t want to miss this truly breathtaking experience.
Travel Tales
NHA Staff Naturalist Brad Josephs just returned from leading the first of two Natural Habitat nature adventures in China’s less traveled mountain country. These trips explore remote mountains and forests of Sichuan and the Tibetan Plateau, areas of China that are rarely seen by foreigners.
Nature & Wildlife
Two rare white African lion cubs were born recently at the Zoodoo Wildlife Park in Tasmania. At just 5 weeks old, you could say the cubs are the “pride” of the park! According to zookeeper Trevor Cuttriss, there are less than 300 white lions worldwide. These lions are not albino, as one might think.
