Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Mom & Baby Elephant

    Nov 20, 2015 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose this mother and baby in a plush green valley of Serengeti National Park. Photographer Barbara Hayton was almost overwhelmed watching all of the young elephants with their mothers, describing the scene as a nursery.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Tandem Hippos

    Nov 13, 2015 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected these tandem hippos in Linyanti, Botswana. Photographer Jim Trojanowski took this photo while on safari in Botswana with Nat Hab. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Look, Mom!

    Nov 6, 2015 · 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 baby elephant in Botswana. Photographer Robert Keyser took this photo while watching a caring mother with her curious baby in the Moremi Wildlife Reserve. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: The Walkabout

    Oct 30, 2015 · 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 lioness and her cubs in South Africa. In the MalaMala Game Reserve, mother lion led the cubs down to the riverbed so she could get a drink while the cubs played in the sand.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Rest. Play. Repeat.

    Oct 23, 2015 · 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 peaceful pack of wild dog pups resting. While in South Africa, photographer Douglas Croft was able to spend an entire day at the den watching these playful pups.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Teeth & Testosterone

    Oct 16, 2015 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose an action shot of two male lions fighting while a female looks on. Photographer JP Meiring captured this image while visiting Kruger National Park with Natural Habitat Adventures.

  • News & More

    As Earth’s Superpredators, Can We Change How We Use Wildlife?

    Oct 13, 2015 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Would you mind living next door to a top predator? It’s a question I’ve asked you before. It seems that when it comes to bears, lions or wolves, we humans, as a whole, can’t get rid of our four-footed, predatory neighbors fast enough.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Cheetah Cubs

    Oct 2, 2015 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose three cheetah cubs playing in Kenya. Photographer Robert Keyser was able to observe these cubs with their mother on two different days while on safari on the Maasai Mara.

  • News & More

    Increasing Bad Behavior around Wildlife: Are More Regulations Needed?

    Sep 29, 2015 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Witnessing any of nature’s great spectacles—such as the wildebeest migration of Africa, the wintering grounds of millions of monarch butterflies in Mexico or thousands of sea turtles coming ashore from the Pacific Ocean to lay eggs—is usually described by onlookers as nothing short of “awe-inspiring.”

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Protective Leopard Mom

    Sep 18, 2015 · 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 leopard mom guiding her cub through the Serengeti. Photographer Barbara Hayton captured this moment while on safari in Tanzania with Nat Hab. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • African Safaris

    Meet the Colorful Kingfishers of Southern Africa

    Aug 31, 2015 · iSafari

    It’s pretty cool, whether you’re a “bird person” or not, to catch a glimpse of a kingfisher. Maybe it’s because their outsized heads, squat bodies, stubby tails, and long, sharp bills lend them a whimsical Wind-in-the-Willows, storybook quality. Or maybe it’s that they don’t look like they should be very good at catching fish.