Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Conservation

    Corridors Connecting National Parks Could Conserve Wildlife

    May 9, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    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

    Drones: New Wing Movements and Watching Wildlife Groups

    May 2, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, don’t offer just a safer way for wildlife biologists to observe their subjects; they’re often less costly, more efficient and more precise than traditional approaches. While researchers are still navigating the challenges and complexities of mixing wildlife and drones, the technology holds incredible potential.

  • Conservation

    Backing Biodiversity Will Lessen the Climate Crisis

    Aug 23, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity loss caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, a sixth mass extinction crisis is underway, this time almost entirely caused by human activities. In fact, one recent survey revealed that more species are threatened with extinction than we previously thought.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    “New” Greenland Polar Bears Found

    Jul 12, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Scientists have discovered a previously unknown, isolated population of polar bears living in Southeast Greenland that has found a unique way to survive.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Who’s Smarter: Your Domesticated Dog or a Wild Gray Wolf?

    Jul 5, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Greyhounds have been a part of my life for more than two decades. In fact, in 2019, when my husband and I got the call inviting us to visit the local kennel to adopt what would be our 10th greyhound over a span of 26 years, we found our new “fur baby” within 30 minutes.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Fearless Animals Will Fare Better in the Face of Climate Change

    Jun 7, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Without a doubt, we humans are altering the natural environment. Because of our activities, we are now experiencing melting glaciers; rising sea levels; warming oceans; and more frequent and intense droughts, heat waves and storms—all the result of human-caused climate change. These effects wreak havoc on people’s communities and livelihoods.

  • News & More

    World Environment Day 2022: Defeating Deforestation

    May 31, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    “Only one Earth. In the universe are billions of galaxies, in our galaxy are billions of planets, but there is #OnlyOneEarth. Let’s take care of it.” That’s the thought behind this year’s World Environment Day, June 5, 2022.