News & More
On Monday, August 21, 2017—for the first time in nearly a century—a total solar eclipse will cross the United States from coast to coast. A solar eclipse happens when a new moon moves between the Earth and the sun, blocking all or some of the sun’s rays.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected the 2016 Wildlife Photo Contest Experts’ Choice Winner. Photographer Cheryl Ramalho captured this chimpanzee’s contemplative moment trekking through the dense forests of Uganda with Nat Hab. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
African Safaris
After seeing the mountain gorillas in Rwanda, I knew my next wildlife travel experience needed to be seeing the chimpanzees in Tanzania. Mahale Mountains National Park near Lake Tanganyika had always been at the top of my list of places to see chimps living in the wild, and I decided to make it happen.
African Safaris
This is Kalunde. He is 54 years old and lives in the forest of Tanzania’s Mahale Mountains. The camp staff at nearby Greystoke Mahale have dubbed him “the Kingmaker” because of his political guile.
Travel Tales
By Sarah Raby, Africa Adventure Director and Group Specialist, who just returned from Nat Hab’s Great Uganda Gorilla Safari. Read on to find out how Uganda surprised her in the best possible way! All photos by Sandy Shannon, Adventure Operations Manager, who was also on the trip.
Travel Tales
The Congo Basin is a priority place for WWF. It’s the 2nd largest rain forest in the world after the Amazon, and the special part, other than the sheer remoteness and absolute wilderness filled with much undiscovered, undocumented flora and fauna, is the uniqueness of the wildlife here.
Videos
I’m always a little wary of smart animal lists for two reasons. The first is that I know without a doubt that my greyhound, Chic, is the smartest dog in the world, yet greyhounds rarely rank in the top 10 on any expert’s list of intelligent dog breeds.
Nature & Wildlife
When UCLA Medical Center cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was asked one day to perform echocardiography on the failing heart of a Los Angeles Zoo emperor tamarin, a small monkey that evolved in the treetops of the Central and South American rain forests, she couldn’t have predicted how profoundly that act would change her thinking on…
Nature Photography
Nat Hab guest Marcia Goldstein recently returned from our Great Uganda Gorilla Safari with some remarkable photos on the ground with mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and wild chimpanzees in Kibale Forest National Park.
Videos
Very little is known about how animals other than ourselves—especially nonhuman primates—react to the deaths of those close to them and whether they “mourn,” as we interpret the feeling.
Conservation
While chimpanzees are struggling amidst declining habitat and bushmeat trade in central Africa, organizations like the Jane Goodall Institute and World Wildlife Fund are working to protect them. Learn more about how you, too, can contribute to the future wellbeing of chimps, including some great conservation-minded holiday gift ideas for the chimp-lovers in your life!
