Videos
Changing Minds with “Chasing Ice”
Not since Al Gore’s 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth has such a powerful documentary feature film come out about the Earth’s changing climate.
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Videos
Video: The Last Tasmanian Tiger
As with the film footage of the last known imperial woodpecker or the remains of the last passenger pigeon, seeing video of the final member of any animal’s kind is sad and eerie, and a good reminder of how fragile our planet and its life-forms are.
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Travel Tales
Kayaking Portugal’s River of Wine
With December’s chill enveloping northern Portugal’s Douro Valley, the searing heat of summer is a faded memory. The dark grapes, hanging heavy on the vines that terrace down the mountains to the river, have been picked and crushed, their fermented juice placed in huge oak casks to spend the winter.
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News & More
CNN Honors Head of Kliptown Youth Project—One of NHA’s Voluntourism Opportunities in Africa!
Never let it be said that the vision of one individual can’t change the lives of many, even in places where resources are very few. Thulani Madondo is proof.
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Nature & Wildlife
In the Hall of a Mountain Cat
When I see this broad furry face staring straight into the camera, I can’t help but think of a wizened little mountain troll. “What are you doing in my home?” it seems to say.
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Conservation
Concern for the Environment Reaches a New Low
The exhausting November 2012 presidential election is finally over. Now we Americans begin what can be another long and involved phase: analysis of that election.
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Videos
Video: The Right Whale Encounter
The most rare of all large whales, right whales were given their common name by whalers, who identified them as the “right whales” to kill. At 50 feet long and weighing 70 tons, right whales were hunted for their plentiful oil and baleen, which could be made into buggy whips, corsets and parasol ribs.
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African Safaris
The Places You’ll Go: Ifrane National Park
By Maddi Higgins, WWF Travel Where: Ifrane National Park is in the Moyen Atlas mountain range, about 35 miles outside of Fes. What’s there: Barbary macaques. The population of Barbary macaques in Ifrane is accustomed to human visitors, so you will be able to see the monkeys at close range.
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News & More
Arctic Adventuring In the Footsteps of Fritjof Nansen | Olaf’s Corner
Last August, Olaf Malver led the first-ever exploratory commercial kayaking expedition into the Skjoldungen Fjords of southeast Greenland, in pursuit of legendary Arctic explorer Fritjof Nansen’s route 125 years earlier. Here is his first-hand account!
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Travel Tales
Active Africa! Multi-Sport Adventure Safari in Kenya
By Wendy Klausner Anyone who knows me well — including the many Nat Hab clients I’ve served as an Adventure Specialist over my 16 years with the company — know that Africa is my very favorite place to travel.
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Conservation
Tourists Not to Blame for Penguin Declines
As an ecotourist, you know that your travels can do a lot of good in the world. They can help boost the economies of local communities, fund preserves and deter poaching. You also know that your presence can sometimes be a detriment to the very lands and wildlife you wish to protect.
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Videos
Video: Defining The Wilderness Act
It’s fall in Wisconsin where I live; and during these moody, gray November days, the white-tailed deer “begin to run,” as we say. It’s the time of year when I see them the most.