Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Alaska

    Photo Essay: The Brown Bears and Salt Marshes of Chinitna Bay, Alaska

    Sep 10, 2024 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Alaska’s Chinitna Bay on Cook Inlet near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is the very heart of coastal brown bear country, according to the National Park Service. And now, having visited it, I can say I wholeheartedly agree.

  • Canada & the North

    The Folklore of North American Wildlife

    Jun 1, 2024 · Emily Goodheart

    America’s national parks are home to a number of alluring animals that hold a place in myth and folklore.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Wildlife Flourishes Inside—and Outside—National Parks

    Sep 12, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Our national parks protect some of our nation’s most cherished, iconic and native wildlife species, such as the brown bears of Katmai National Park and the bison—America’s national mammal—of Yellowstone National Park. But, according to some, there’s a dark side to that safety.

  • Alaska

    Bunk With a Brown Bear: Nat Hab’s New Alaska Bear Camp

    Jan 25, 2023 · Michelle Peters

    Soar by bush plane over Cook Inlet, active volcanoes and massive glaciers en route to a pristine beach in the Alaskan wilderness. Today, you’re headed to camp. Not the summer camp of your past (no swim test required!), but exhilarating all the same.

  • Canada & the North

    Solving Problems with Animal Know-How

    Jan 10, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    In the winter, those of you who live in Northern regions understand the importance of traction—especially on ice and snow.

  • Alaska

    Go Big or Go Home: My First Brown Bear Encounter

    Aug 11, 2022 · WWF

    In Alaska, there is an incredibly remote and breathtakingly beautiful place where the brown bears gather in mass, the salmon fill the pristine rivers and streams, bald eagles soar high above, the sedges grow high, and the “land of the midnight sun” shines on what I would come to know as Bear Camp.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    13 Facts About Brown Bears (Ursus arctos)

    Jul 18, 2022 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    Brown bears have long captured our imaginations in ways that few other wild animals have—they can stand on their two hind legs, pick things up with their paws, and as omnivores, they even like to eat a lot of the same food as humans.

  • Alaska

    Petitioning for Pebble

    Jun 23, 2022 · Jennie Lay

    Now is the critical moment to sign on and support Bristol Bay conservation…again The final battle is intensifying in an epic three-decade struggle between an open-pit mine and Earth’s largest sockeye salmon run.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Nat Hab’s Bear Adventures Around the Globe

    May 11, 2022 · Michelle Peters

    What do a sun bear, a sloth bear and a polar bear have in common? Despite living in vastly different habitats—think lush tropical jungles versus barren Arctic tundra—they do have some similarities. Learn what those common threads are on Nat Hab bear-focused expeditions from Alaska to South Asia, Churchill to China.

  • Latin America

    Found: Fishing Jaguars in Brazil’s Phenomenal Pantanal

    Apr 5, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    At more than 81,000 square miles—greater than 10 times the size of Florida’s Everglades—the Pantanal, located mostly in Brazil, is the largest tropical wetland and one of the most pristine in the world. This seasonally flooded plain is fed by tributaries of the Paraguay River and is one of the planet’s most productive habitats.

  • Conservation

    Conservation Success Stories from Switzerland: Rewilding the Alps

    Apr 1, 2022 · Samantha Miller

    Successful, well-funded conservation programs and effective international coordination with other European nations have established Switzerland as an internationally renowned destination for nature lovers, conservationists and more. The Swiss Alps, glaciers and vast alpine meadows of Switzerland have captured the interests of people across the globe for their undeniable natural beauty.