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Sometimes we forget how simple a nature trip can be. A toddler named Arthur, though, reminds us in the short video below. Watch as this little boy takes a walk through the woods with his 12-year-old dog, Watson.
Asia & The Pacific
Huge numbers of seabirds blanket the rocky landscape of the Russian Far East. The birds perch on high, windswept cliffs that rise to seemingly infinite heights, making their habitat inaccessible to other animals that would want to hunt them. As a result, the birds prosper in massive, dense colonies.
Conservation
Identifying individuals within a group is vital for wildlife ecologists. Following a specific animal can help scientists understand the social interactions, migratory routes, preferred habitats, behaviors within certain settings, life spans and reproduction rates of various species. But distinguishing one animal from another in a group is often difficult.
Conservation
Our good friends over at WWF have just released their first U.S. iPad application, “WWF Together,” available as a free download at the AppStore. The app is a unique interactive experience for all ages includes stories, images, and videos featuring endangered species such as polar bears, giant pandas, and tigers, among others.
Nature & Wildlife
During the winter months, bald eagle watching is one of my favorite pastimes. In Wisconsin where I live, the raptors tend to hang out on the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers. Surprisingly, rather than head to the waterways’ wilds to indulge my hobby, I head to the cities on the banks.
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With their fierce, intense eyes, deadly claws and hooked beaks, bald eagles have adorned flags and led armies into battle throughout the ages. The national emblem of the United States since 1782—and a spiritual symbol for Native Americans for far longer—the bald eagle is the very embodiment of our ideas about power, freedom and independence.
Nature Photography
The gift-giving-and-receiving season has been over for a few weeks now, and the chances that you were the recipient of at least one electronic gadget of some kind or another—such as a smartphone, laptop computer or tablet—are good.
Conservation
Over one-third of all animal species in the world lives in the Amazon River system and its surrounding rainforest. Among all this flying, creeping, swimming, slithering, running, climbing fauna, the Amazon pink river dolphins are an especially appealing presence with their playful nature and pastel coloration.
Conservation
A shiny red bauble that hangs on Olaf Malver’s Christmas tree — found in a most unlikely spot — is a reminder of what ecotourism can bring to communities and the guests that explore the natural environs around them.
Conservation
As a lover of wild animals, my media feed spans the globe for wildlife conservation stories. This fall and winter, however, I have not needed to search far in following one of North America’s liveliest conservation debates: who should have the authority to manage wolf populations in the northern Rockies?
Videos
On these dark, wintry nights, you may find yourself preferring the proverbial “not a creature was stirring,” but when you hear the cute “snoring” of this creature, you just might change your mind. The hummingbird in the video below is a female amethyst-throated sunangel, native to the Andes of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
Nature & Wildlife
During the week before Christmas, it seems fitting that we pay homage to a part of nature that, over the centuries, is often a traveler’s best friend: the guiding North Star. The timing is even more appropriate, since earlier this month, the National Geographic Society reported breaking news about our friend, Polaris.
