News & More
“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.
Nature & Wildlife
Carbon neutral. Mitigation. Tipping point. Unprecedented transition. If asked, could you explicitly define the terms above, words that are often used in discussions about climate change? If not, you’re not alone.
Conservation
If I asked you to tell me how environmentally friendly you are, you’d probably say that you think you rate pretty high on the scale; that you use few paper products, compost, try to eat local when possible and have switched to energy-saving appliances and devices. You might drive a hybrid or an all-electric car.
Conservation
True wilderness areas—where human impacts are minimal or entirely absent—are dwindling. That probably comes as no surprise to you.
Travel Tales
Natural Habitat Adventures and WWF educate and inspire travelers to adopt lifelong habits to save treasured natural spaces and species. The light yellow curtain of early morning sunlight poured onto the still-dewy grasses in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley.
Conservation
More than eight million tons of plastic debris end up in our oceans every year. Present in nearly every oceanic layer, plastic garbage today accounts for nearly 80 percent of all waste found in our oceans.
Conservation
In January 2018, Natural Habitat Adventures embarked on a new sustainability initiative to eliminate plastic straws from all of our nature journeys in order to help combat the global environmental challenges posed by single-use plastics. We’ve made great progress so far—as of August, 67 percent of Nat Hab’s trips are free of plastic straws.
Videos
Plastics were originally invented to save animals. Let that fact sink in for a moment because it’s sadly ironic. Today, plastic plays a large part in killing them.
Conservation
There’s a famous, one-word line in the 1967 movie The Graduate, when a well-meaning man advises a young college student, played by actor Dustin Hoffman, to think about the direction of his future. “Plastics,” the man says. It seems as though that future is here. Today, our culture is subsumed by the ubiquity of plastics.
News & More
You’ve cut down on the number of plastic water bottles you buy. You make sure to load your groceries into reusable fabric totes, forgoing the plastic bags the store offers.
