News & More
I’m not talking about a spirulina smoothie, though that can be good for you, too. Nope, it’s actually “Vitamin N” that’s the focus – “N” for “nature.” It’s author Richard Louv’s term for the health benefits of time spent in the natural world, detailed in his book The Nature Principle.
Videos
Right now, Earth is experiencing an amazing natural event—one you may not even have noticed if you haven’t been looking directly at the sun, as your mother wisely warned. A very large sunspot has been tracking across our nearest star and is about to face directly toward our planet.
Nature & Wildlife
Keep your eyes trained on the trees during our Wild Papua New Guinea trip, and you may be fortunate to spot one of the showiest birds on earth, the bird of paradise.
Conservation
Cute, adorable animals are often used to garner support for environmental causes in places that are remote. After all, it’s hard to have concern for an area that is at the opposite end of the Earth from where you live and for which you have no plans to ever see.
Conservation
It is a conflict as old as the hills: the predation of domestic livestock by a wild animal and subsequent eradication of the predator by the deprived herder. In this era of endangered species and declining natural habitat, such retaliation can hasten the extinction of an already imperiled animal.
Videos
In September 2008 while their boat was in the Sea of Cortez between Isla Ángel de la Guarda and Bahia de los Angeles, Mexico, some fishermen encountered a pod of dolphins.
News & More
by Breanna Draxler Pull out your hiking boots and put on your backpack. It’s National Parks Week! From April 22 to 29, you can visit any national park in the U.S. for free! You’ve got 397 parks across the country to choose from, so what’ll it be?
Travel Tales
By Mark Hickey NHA Creative Director If you’ve ever been on safari in Africa, you know how impressive it is to watch wildlife from an open 4X4 vehicle on a game drive. But watching it on foot is even more amazing.
Conservation
There are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than previously thought, stated the National Science Foundation in mid April. That’s certainly good news, as concerns about the effects of global warming on penguin colonies rise.
Conservation
Here at Natural Habitat Adventures, taking care of the earth is a way of life. After all, without the earth’s wild natural places, we wouldn’t be in business!
Conservation
With piles of popular articles on the subject and decades of research behind us, you’d think we’d all be experts on global warming by now, right? But it turns out that half of the adults in the United States would probably earn an F on a pop quiz about climate change.
Conservation
By Christy Lavoie Destination Manager, Natural Habitat Adventures Panama’s Bocas del Toro is a little-known collection of rocky islands in the far northwest of the country on the Caribbean Sea, esteemed for its lush tropical vegetation and rich biodiversity, including fauna found nowhere else in the world.
