Travel Tales
Follow Your Kinski | Olaf’s Corner
My traveling buddy and I had just spent a horrible night north of the Guatemala border.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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Conservation
Belize Shells Up Turtle Protection
Belize is fringed by a vibrant expanse of living coral, known as the Mesoamerican Reef System. It’s a Caribbean underwater paradise—a snorkeler’s dream and an endangered sea turtle’s lifeline. Stretching from Mexico to Guatemala, this is the world’s second largest reef system.
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Conservation
Development Threatens Nearly Half of All Natural World Heritage Sites
The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System. The Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. These are just three of the 238 natural and mixed (cultural and natural) sites designated as World Heritage by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. And all three are threatened by human development.
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Nature & Wildlife
Exotic Wildlife of Belize
Under water, on land and in the air, few countries on the planet have the readily accessible wildlife diversity of Belize. And if you take into account the fact that it is one of the smallest countries in the world, arguably nowhere else can compare.
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Nature & Wildlife
Reefs to Ruins to Rain Forest – the Caribbean’s Best Kept Secret isn’t even an Island!
One of the world’s tiniest countries, Belize, may just be the jeweled crown of adventures for nature, wildlife and ancient human civilizations in Central America and the Caribbean. Tucked neatly into a pocket of mainland Central America and stretched along the Caribbean Coast, friendly Belize (formerly British Honduras until 1981) truly has it all.
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Videos
Video of the Week: Slow Life – An Underwater Timelapse
I recently came across one of the most stunning time-lapse videos I’ve seen in a while titled Slow Life. Daniel Stoupin, a Ph.D. student from the University of Queensland in Australia, made it by taking a series of photographs over a period of nine months.
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Nature & Wildlife
11 WWF & Nat Hab Travel Destinations Top the New York Times 2014 Bucket List
The New York Times published an exclusive list 52 places to visit in 2014. Here are 11 of the destinations WWF and Nat Hab can take you to in 2014.
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Conservation
Top Cat of the Rainforest
Over the past few weeks, I have blogged about two of the big cats of Asia: the Amur Leopard and the Snow Leopard. The Western Hemisphere has its share of spotted cats, as well. The jaguar is the third largest feline species worldwide, after lions and tigers.
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Conservation
Rare ocelot found in Arizona backyard
That’s no ordinary kitty treed by a dog in a southern Arizona backyard! This young ocelot’s presence might indicate that the small population in Mexican Sonora is making its way over the border for the first time in nearly 50 years.
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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.