Videos
A Dolphin Caught in Fishing Line Asks for Human Help
It’s not often that stressed wild animals trust us humans enough to ask for our help, but that’s exactly what one bottlenose dolphin did earlier this year. Watch!
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Videos
Video: A Hunting Red Fox Demonstrates His Scientific Method
Watching a red fox hunt in the winter by slowly creeping forward, listening intently and then jumping high to pounce on prey can be pretty entertaining, but it turns out there’s a lot of science behind all the wild, deep-snow diving.
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Conservation
We Need More Snow Days
I think part of the reason that I love snow and ice is because I think winter is an endangered species. Have you ever chosen to travel to a particular place because you miss the colder winters of the past?
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News & More
Introducing the new official travel blog of WWF and Natural Habitat Adventures!
We’ve shared the same mission for several decades — to protect the world’s wild places and take you to see them. Now we’re sharing an avenue for telling you the stories of conservation and travel.
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Travel Tips
Printed Guidebooks: Can Frommer’s Be Successful Again?
There’s no doubt that the print publishing world is rapidly changing, and perhaps nowhere is the revolving nature of the industry being played out more visibly than in the travel guidebook genre.
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Nature & Wildlife
Is the Ability to Identify Wildlife an Endangered Skill, or Unnecessary Knowledge?
There’s an interesting, little book I picked up a few years ago. It’s titled Back in the Day: 101 Things Everyone Used to Know How to Do.
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Nature & Wildlife
Poachers Hack into a Tiger’s GPS Collar: Are Wildlife Tracking Devices Helping Criminals?
There’s no doubt that tracking devices, such as GPS collars, have helped researchers monitor and conserve wildlife. While the necessity of capturing and handling wild animals—and the high costs involved—in order to attach these mechanisms has been controversial for some time, now a band-new, sinister use of these tools is being discovered.
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Videos
Moths’ Open-Weave Cocoons Adapted to Handle Heavy Forest Rains
In the rain forests of Peru, the average annual rainfall measures 79 inches. That not only creates lush, green jungles filled with a diversity of life but dangerous environments, too—especially if you’re a caterpillar aspiring to become a moth. Most caterpillars construct tightly knit coverings in out-of-the-way places in which to undergo their transformations.
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Nature Photography
A Shifting Landscape: Images of Greenland’s Ice
With hundreds of staggeringly beautiful, ice-choked fjords, snowcapped summits, rushing waterfalls and flowing glaciers, Greenland is a paradise for cold-place fans, such as myself. And, if you seek remote and unpopulated corners, Greenland satisfies on that count, too.
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Nature Photography
Do Digital Devices Dampen Travel Desire?
The gift-giving-and-receiving season has been over for a few weeks now, and the chances that you were the recipient of at least one electronic gadget of some kind or another—such as a smartphone, laptop computer or tablet—are good.
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Travel Tales
Adventures Alone: First Solo, Unassisted Ski Across Antarctica
In January of this year, a British woman, Felicity Aston, accomplished an incredible feat for adventure annals: she skied solo and unassisted across Antarctica. She is the first woman—and first human—to do so.
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Travel Tips
Are Paper Maps Obsolete?
Interstate rest stops are some of my favorite places when it comes to getting ideas for new adventures. Inside their doors are racks filled with printed brochures and colorful maps that promise excitement just down the road.