Nature & Wildlife
Our Planet brilliantly encapsulates the idea that our wild places are worth protecting. Detailed within each episode are accounts of spectacular natural phenomena, such as the super blooms that occur once every decade in California’s deserts after a cloudburst.
Travel Tales
We were hiking in Andasibe National Park when we came upon this gray bamboo lemur. Gray bamboo lemurs are vertical climbers, and they jump from stalk to stalk in thick bamboo forests. But this one just stared intently at me with his big eyes.
Conservation
Deep in the rainforest, in the cover of darkness, the lucky traveler may come across the luminous, piercing eyes of the Aye-aye high in the canopy. Encounters with these elusive lemurs are extremely rare, so little is known of their behavior in the wild.
Nature Photography
There’s something just so amazing about walking to the door of your hotel room and having your concentration completely broken because there’s a troop of Coquerel’s sifaka less than 2 feet from you! The better part was that they seemed to pay absolutely no mind of my presence. Lemurs are addictive. Especially that close!
Travel Tales
In June 2017, Nat Hab traveler Ardelle Fellows encountered wild lemurs and more as she explored the wondrous biodiversity of Earth’s most unique island on a small-group Madagascar Wildlife Adventure. This African island is essentially living time capsule, a “lost world” that’s home some of the planet’s most unusual (and photogenic) species.
Nature & Wildlife
Last year, I joined a group of Nat Hab travelers on a fourteen-day Madagascar safari beginning on the island’s central plateau. In Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park, our Nat Hab group connected with Domoina Rakotomalala, WWF Madagascar’s Landscape Manager for the Tulear region.
Travel Tales
I have wanted to travel to Madagascar ever since I first learned about it in third grade. In July 2015, I finally had my chance to tour this large island off the southeast coast of Africa.
News & More
Last year in honor of the International Day of Happiness, we asked you to tell us what it is about travel that makes you happiest. We loved your responses, and we’re excited to share some of them with you now in honor of this year’s International Day of Happiness coming up on March 20th, 2016!
Nature & Wildlife
Exploring one of the planet’s most unique–and imperiled–biodiversity hotspots with Nat Hab and WWF. Mandehandeha mahita raha. Those who travel see much. I was raised on stories of the geat red island. In the 1960s, my mother moved to Madagascar, and in 1972 my parents met in the city of the thousand–Antananarivo.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our new Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose this brown lemur in Madagascar. Photographer Caroline Gilmore captured this photo while on a visit to Ranomafana National Park with Natural Habitat Adventures where she says she saw over 21 lemur species.
Nature Photography
National Geographic Magazine annual photo contest is under way again! Photographers can submit their stunning shots up until the October 31st deadline. Here are a few of our favorite wildlife photo submissions so far with the captions written by the original photographers.
Nature & Wildlife
NHA Adventure Specialist Andrea Reynolds updates us on IMAX’s latest wildlife flick, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar. Lemurs are fascinating primates that are unique to Madagascar, with 33 species roaming Africa’s largest island. These entertaining animals are the feature of a recently-released IMAX movie which chronicles their plight.
