Alaska
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.
Conservation
On December 28, 1973, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was signed into law. We’ll soon be celebrating the 50th anniversary of this landmark conservation legislation, which has saved hundreds of animals that once wavered on the brink of extinction.
Conservation
Our national parks aren’t only “America’s best idea,” as environmentalist and nature writer Wallace Stegner called them. These special places are the backbone of national conservation programs.
Conservation
Although sometimes heart-wrenching to discover on our nature outings, the animal carcasses that we may come across play an important role in the functioning of healthy ecosystems. The animal remains not only provide food for many carrion-eating species, their nutrients also contribute to the significantly increased growth of surrounding plants.
Alaska
By Kelley Ashford, Sr. Video Specialist, Development, WWF-US & Mónica Echeverría-Cota, Deputy Director, Media and Strategic Communications, WWF-US We both have long anticipated traveling to Alaska. It is one of those places on every nature-lover’s bucket list.
Alaska
Delve into Dana Cama’s bio, and it seems her life path was destined to lead to her role as social media manager for Natural Habitat Adventures. After committing to conservation at an early age, Cama went on to study environmental science before graduating with an arts degree at Parsons School of Design.
Alaska
Fat Bear Week recently announced the 2022 champion: 747 (aka “Bear Force One”).
Conservation
Yellowstone National Park is famous for its beautiful but harsh winters. Blanketed in snow, it exudes an almost mythical aura—even in the season’s common subzero temperatures there.
Nature & Wildlife
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.
Canada & the North
A “time line” of nearly any animal’s existence is an almost-oxymoron, if you ask me. Time lines can make things seem as if they progressed in a linear manner. But life is a lot messier than that. Sometimes things go forward, then back again, and they can even do loop the loops and veer sideways.
Alaska
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.
Canada & the North
Within a 250-mile stretch of British Columbia’s central and northern coast, some of Earth’s oldest and tallest trees reach for the sky. Covering 21 million acres, the expansive Great Bear Rainforest—which stretches from the Knight Inlet of British Columbia’s Inside Passage to the Alaska Panhandle—is home to thousand-year-old red cedars and towering Sitka spruce trees.
