Conservation
Homage to a Small Eco-Warrior: the Mosquito
“Unsung heroes of the environment.” The “green Nobel Prize.” Eco-Ocean Awards, ecoart competitions and ecoschool certifications.
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Travel Tips
What are YOUR Top Ten Travel Moments?
I’m usually too busy to watch television, so it’s perhaps not surprising I didn’t know who Samantha Brown was, when a friend told me she had her dream job.
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Nature & Wildlife
Your Travels, Years Later
I know this is going to sound weird, but a month ago I got up at 3:00 a.m. to drive almost 150 miles north of here. I did this just for the opportunity to sit in silence in a plywood box—no bigger than four feet by five feet—for three hours on a below-freezing April morning.
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News & More
NHA Best Company in America — Again!
Once again, Natural Habitat Adventures has topped Outside Magazine’s best places to work in America. The core values that make NHA such a unique place include genuine respect for personal and professional growth – and what better way to grow than travel!
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Travel Tales
Wayfinders Wanted
Before you decided where you were going to go for your next travel adventure, you probably researched different locales online, picked up brochures from several travel agencies, read books on the areas from the library and carefully sorted through various itineraries from a few tour companies.
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Conservation
10 Tips for Travelers to Make Every Day Earth Day
Happy 40th Birthday, Earth Day! As adventurers united in a passion for exploring the far recesses of our globe, we know how crucial it is to protect the natural environments we treasure. Most of us pay closer attention to treading lightly upon our precious planet when Earth Day circles around.
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Conservation
"Rocking the Cure" for Climate Change
As each one of your incandescent light bulbs burns out, you change it to a compact fluorescent. You’ve promised yourself that you’ll never again buy water in a plastic bottle, and you dutifully refill your aluminum canteen from the tap. When you travel, you always buy carbon offsets.
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News & More
Put a National Park Atop Your Travel List
Filmmaker Ken Burns calls our national parks “America’s Best Idea.” I enthusiastically agree. To preserve our country’s most spectacular landscapes for all Americans, to protect distinctive places to enjoy and treasure for generations to come – that’s a vision that embodies the best of our democratic ideals.
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Travel Tales
The Things You Carry
Spirit Airlines will become the first carrier in U.S. history to charge fliers for putting carry-on bags into its overhead storage bins when it institutes its new fee schedule on August 1, 2010.
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Conservation
100 Amazing Places to Protect
Well, if you guessed that you could see them all with Natural Habitat Expeditions, you’d be right, but that’s ultimately not the most important trait they share. These wild animals, along with a host of geological and cultural features that comprise some of Earth’s most distinctive places, are facing dramatic impacts from climate change.
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Conservation
Harp seal hunt curtailed, but pups still in peril
When Ben Bressler launched Natural Habitat Adventures 25 years ago by taking a handful of guests to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, he had a distinct goal: to protect harp seals through ecotourism.
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News & More
I Wish I Were Kevin Taylor | Ben's Musings
Dear Friend, It’s never a good thing to wish you were somebody else. I tell my kids that all the time. Yet some folks wish they were this celebrity (Paris Hilton, really?) or that musician (Pete Townshend, now you’re talkin’) or some famous magnate (Bill Gates, ok that works).