Nature & Wildlife
Bam Bam the Ram: Is Feeding Wildlife Ever OK?
When we feed wild animals, the result can be just as lethal as if we had poisoned them. But is feeding wild animals always wrong?
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News & More
Young People Have Less Money Than Ever Before, So Why Are They Traveling More?
The ages of some of my fellow travelers on a recent trip to Antarctica surprised me.
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Videos
Video: Yosemite National Park in Print
Remember printed newsletters—those antiquated publications that used to inform you about all the current happenings and long-ago history from a place or an organization? In the past, many of our national parks had weekly or monthly newsletters. In the case of Yosemite, the publication was titled Nature Notes, and it ran from 1922 to 1961.
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News & More
Are We Now Losing Our Most Iconic Buildings Due to Climate Change?
“Extinction tourism” is a familiar term when it comes to wildlife and natural habitats: it’s described as a desire to see the animals and landscapes that are just managing to hang on before they’re gone.
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Nature Photography
Top 10 Photography Tips for Cold Conditions
It’s hard to believe that Elisabeth Kruger, an Arctic and Bering Sea program officer for WWF, once had a career in theater, specifically lighting design. Her interest in lighting attracted her to photography and, while living in Russia for four years, she bought her first “real” camera and starting taking photography classes.
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Nature & Wildlife
Does Our Language Regarding Wolves and Bears Shape Our Attitudes?
In Wisconsin where I live, we call three large predators “neighbors”: the black bear, the gray wolf and the occasional mountain lion. Because of this, you might think that Wisconsinites’ attitudes toward all three animals would be similar.
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Nature & Wildlife
Urban Coyotes: Pet Threats or Ecosystem Equalizers?
No matter where you live—whether in a developed, suburban district or a woodsy, semirural area—you most likely have coyote neighbors. Although you may have never seen them, coyotes are now a fact of life in nearly every American city.
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Videos
Video: Photography Tip for Shooting Wildlife
As wildlife enthusiasts, we’ve probably all done it: tried to sneak up on an unsuspecting animal so that we could get a better photographic shot.
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Conservation
On the Loss of Passenger Pigeons and Parks
One hundred years ago this year, the last passenger pigeon on Earth died in the Cincinnati Zoo. A female named Martha, she has now become an icon for species extinction.
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News & More
Poaching of a Different Kind: Stealing Our Redwoods
The spike in illegal wildlife trade continues: in 2013, poachers killed 1,004 rhinos in South Africa alone; and in 2012, some 15,000 elephants were slaughtered at 42 sites across 27 African countries, according to CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
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Travel Tales
3 Meals a Day…or a Lifetime of Memories? | Ben's Musings
Dear Traveler, I like eating. I’m guessing you do, too. Heck, I bet most of us enjoy our meals, right? (Okay, this is clearly going to be a bit of a wise-ass blog post, isn’t it?)
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Travel Tips
11 Ways That Travel Can Change Your Life
I recently signed up for Spanish lessons. I’ve been meaning to study Spanish for almost 30 years now, but for some reason, it was always one of those things that fell to the bottom of my priority list. That is, until now. My enrollment in the class was inspired by a trip to Antarctica in March.