Conservation
Outside Magazine recently profiled a new way poachers are using technology to locate species such rhinos in the wild. What technology you ask? The GPS coordinates from your travel photos. Learn what you can do as a traveler to help stop wildlife crime.
Videos
Take a peek at this great footage from our wonderful guide Brad Josephs on a recent Coastal Alaskan Grizzly Adventure! Watch as a curious brown bear cub on the Alaska Peninsula approaches a group of wildlife photographers Brad was guiding and then decides to swat a GoPro he posted on a pole in the sand.
News & More
The ages of some of my fellow travelers on a recent trip to Antarctica surprised me.
Videos
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.
Nature Photography
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.
Galapagos Islands
Nat Hab guest and photographer extraordinaire Jeff Goldberg just returned from one of NHA’s Galapagos tours. He took this incredible photo of the Galapagos night sky at the NHA Wild Tortoise Camp, our exclusive deluxe camp high atop Santa Cruz Island. The photo was too good not to share! “I just got back from the Galapagos.
Videos
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.
Videos
We’re all familiar with the concept of desert mirages, a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of the sky or distant objects.
Nature Photography
Spring has officially arrived! Trees are budding, flowers are blooming, and sleepy bears are emerging from their dens after the long winter. One photographer was lucky-enough to capture just this. Peter Mather was traveling with his partner when they suddenly spotted a head peaking out of a den on the side of the road.
Videos
The recent popularity of GoPros and other helmet cameras have certainly given us some amazing footage of the natural world, the likes of which have never been viewed before. Now, it seems, an eagle in western Australia has picked up on the trend.
Nature Photography
Have you ever wanted to travel back in time to see what the world was like 50 years ago… 100 years ago… 200 years ago? What about 9,000 years ago? A new book that just came out today, The Oldest Living Things in the World by Rachel Sussman, can do just that.
Travel Tales
The world is shrinking. Advances in communication, computer technology and transportation have all played a role in making the world a smaller place. Now, it’s easy to “travel” to an exotic locale, just by the stroke of a finger across a small, mobile screen.
