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For several years, Natural Habitat Adventures has been partners with Explorers’ Corner, a unique active adventure travel company that explores some of the earth’s wildest and most interesting places.
Conservation
September 27 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, a book written by marine biologist Rachel Carson. In her famous tome, Carson warned about the harmful side effects entering the environment through our use of pesticides.
Videos
In a country that has seen war for more than 30 years, you’d expect to find very little megafauna left. That’s why the world was surprised when it was recently learned that in the high-elevation mountains of Afghanistan, there is a fairly large population of snow leopards managing to hang on.
Nature & Wildlife
One of the features on the newly redesigned website of The World Wildlife Fund that I have enjoyed is the camera trap photo galleries from the Amazon, Russia, Nepal, and Ecuador. To obtain data on wildlife and their habitats, scientists install cameras with infrared triggers in wilderness areas.
Conservation
On your bucket list of travel destinations, there are probably several United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage sites: the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, Machu Picchu in Peru, or the fjords, rocky coasts and waterfalls of southwest New Zealand. It’s no wonder that your list intersects with that of UNESCO’s.
Conservation
As wildlife seekers and nature enthusiasts, we tend to rank state and national parks high on our lists of favorite travel destinations.
Videos
Every photographer—amateur and professional—who’s been on a Natural Habitat Adventures trip is familiar with that catch-in-the-throat feeling when a wild animal comes within close range of your camera lens.
Nature & Wildlife
When my son and I visited California’s Monterey Bay in October a few years ago, we were enchanted by our frequent sightings of sea lions and sea otters.
Travel Tales
In January of this year, a British woman, Felicity Aston, accomplished an incredible feat for adventure annals: she skied solo and unassisted across Antarctica. She is the first woman—and first human—to do so.
Nature & Wildlife
Like fragments of glass, 114 lakes shimmer across the landscape of Sichuan’s Jiuzhaigou National Park on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Indeed, legend relates that the lakes originated in the shattering of a mirror presented to the beautiful goddess Woluo Semo by an adoring mortal.
Nature & Wildlife
I used to think that some of the world’s best nature and travel books could be found in the children’s section of my local bookstore.
Latin America
Butterflies seem to be one of the most fragile of all creatures. Yet the stately monarch butterfly embarks on an annual migration of 2,000-3,000 miles from locations in the United States and southern Canada all the way to the highlands of central Mexico.
