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  • Antarctica & Arctic

    Penguins and Their Original Homelands

    Aug 13, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Part of the reason that I’m so enthralled with Antarctica is because it’s one of the rare places on Earth that has never had an Indigenous population; in other words, there are no native human Antarcticans. Of course, animals other than us have lived there for eons. Perhaps, the best known and most abundant are penguins.

  • Antarctica & Arctic

    How to Choose the Best Antarctica Trip for You

    Aug 12, 2025 · Michelle Peters

    Imagine gliding through a silent sea of icebergs, the only sounds the occasional calving of glaciers, the call of seabirds and the excited murmur of your handful of shipmates. Nowhere else on Earth rewards avid adventurers like Antarctica, the globe’s most remote and magnificent polar wilderness.

  • Alaska

    The Nat Hab Book Club with Author Kristin Hannah: Alaska & ‘The Great Alone’

    Aug 11, 2025 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    If stories rooted in wild places and tales about the resilience of the human spirit speak to your soul, we have exciting news! We’re launching the Nat Hab Book Club, a brand-new webinar series that celebrates books inspired by nature—and the powerful ways wilderness shapes our lives.

  • Alaska

    5 Memorable Ways to Explore Alaska by Air, Land and Sea

    Aug 8, 2025 · Cathy Brown

    Anyone trying to convey the grandeur of an Alaska wilderness adventure knows how difficult it is to articulate the majesty of the place. With 17 of the 20 highest peaks in North America, 100,000 glaciers, more than 12,000 rivers and three million lakes, Alaska supports a vast wilderness.

  • Europe

    Traveler Story: The Mind-Boggling Beauty of East Greenland

    Aug 8, 2025 · WWF

    By Stephanie Lee, WWF Program Coordinator, Alaska To me, traveling is meant to expand one’s view of the world. It is to see new things, meet new people and come home with a better understanding of how we’re all connected. Going to East Greenland with Nat Hab fulfilled all those expectations with a once-in-a-lifetime trip.

  • Alaska

    How to Experience Denali National Park While the Park Road is Closed

    Aug 7, 2025 · Michelle Peters

    Denali National Park and Preserve is a bit of an enigma. With 6 million acres of wild land to explore, the region is so much more than a mountain. Alaska’s Big Five—grizzlies, moose, wolves, caribou and Dall sheep—roam free within low-elevation taiga forest, on snowy slopes and in high alpine tundra.

  • Alaska

    Wildflower Season in Alaska: A Floral Guide for Nature Travelers

    Aug 6, 2025 · Emily Goodheart

    More than 1,500 species of wildflowers color the Alaskan landscape. Bursting forth from lush valleys and alpine meadows during the northern summer, the flora blooms from mid-June into August. Experience Alaska’s summer splendor as we survey a tapestry of mixed forest, glacier-fed lakes and rivers, ice-crowned peaks and wondrous wildflower meadows.

  • African Safaris

    Traveling to Victoria Falls—5 Facts to Know Before You Go

    Aug 5, 2025 · Emily Goodheart

    Victoria Falls: The Eden of Africa Scottish explorer David Livingstone first recorded Victoria Falls in 1855, writing that he was struck by “scenes so lovely they must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.” Rising spray creates shimmering rainbows and sustains a lush rainforest microclimate along the basalt canyon walls.

  • Conservation

    AI and VR for Nature’s Future

    Aug 5, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Virtual reality (VR)—a technology that simulates a three-dimensional (3D) environment, allowing users to interact with a computer-generated world as if they were physically present—can create dynamic, immersive and personalized experiences.

  • Conservation

    3 Ways to Celebrate International Wolf Day

    Aug 1, 2025 · Lavanya Sunkara

    Like sharks, wolves have an unfair reputation for being villains. Children grow up reading fairy tales about the “big bad wolf.” But in reality, these animals are generally not harmful to humans, as they shy away and avoid any interactions with us.

  • Conservation

    The Big Bad Wolf: Greater Yellowstone’s Greatest Controversy

    Jul 31, 2025 · Megan Brief

    Watch Nat Hab’s “The Big Bad Wolf” and Read on for an Exclusive Interview with the Film’s Co-Producer—Wildlife Biologist, Aaron Bott Directed by Andrew Ackerman, “The Big Bad Wolf” follows in the footsteps of Aaron Bott as he tracks wolves (Canis lupus) through snow-covered alpine meadows and beneath the branches of ancient conifers.