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Natural Habitat Expeditions love of a good drink, we are very excited about this story coming straight from Antarctica. Members of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust began excavating a very important find beneath Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic hut: five crates of whiskey and brandy.
Travel Tales
William Least Heat-Moon, author of such American travel books as Blue Highways (1982), River Horse: A Voyage Across America (1999), and Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey (2008), is one of my favorite writers.
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Hi Friends, I have a friend who takes issue with the concept of travel operators claiming that their trips are life-changing. “Who are we to tell our guests to ‘change their lives’,” says Sven Lindblad, the esteemed founder of Lindblad Expeditions, the world leader in ship-based expeditionary travel.
Conservation
Our own Ben Bressler was featured on Fox 31 in Colorado to share his thoughts on eco-tourism! We’re sorry, this video is no longer available from Fox 31!
Conservation
Kenya’s Amboseli National Park will be receiving a few thousand new animals in 2010. The park located in southern Kenya on the border with Tanzania suffered a major setback in 2009 with droughts that caused over 60% of the zebra and wildebeest population to perish.
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If you were to believe much of what you read in newspapers, magazines and ads, or what you see and hear in electronic media today, you might conclude that adventure is mostly for those in their 20ss or younger.
Conservation
The jagged coast of southern Chile is one of the most dramatic places on earth. A maze of fjords and islands, the topography is testament to the power of ice to shape a landscape. Massive glaciers wind down from the high Andes, calving blue icebergs into the frigid sea.
Conservation
A small ray of hope has given Asia’s dwindling tiger population a chance at recovering their numbers. A 13 country coalition has pledged to double the current paltry number of tigers in the wild (estimate at 3,200) in the next decade.
News & More
Dear Friends, Red-eyed and sleepy after hours of weather delays, I read a story in an in-flight magazine late last night about the happiest man on the planet. He’s a young man, 24 years old, and he’s not been educated in the traditional sense.
Travel Tales
It was fall when I saw the little town of Churchill in Manitoba, Canada, for the first time. Like most of the other visitors there at that time of year, I went to see its polar bears. That trip also marked the first time that I ever set foot outside the United States.
Conservation
Remember those cheerful Coca Cola commercials with the cute polar bears? The global soft drink company is now working to save the very environment they advertise.
Nature & Wildlife
Dogs never lie. I suspect it’s because they have tails. Happy or sad, a canine instantly communicates his feelings by the aspect of his tail. I’ve often wondered why we don’t invent such a backside appendage for ourselves that could connect to our nerve endings, much as some prosthetic arms and legs do.
