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
At World Wildlife Fund (WWF) conservation program site in Dzanga-Sangha in the Central African Republic (CAR), researchers and environmentalists have worked to habituate and conserve Western Lowland gorillas over the past 16 years. At the end of January, the first western gorilla twins ever recorded in Dzanga Sangha were born.
Travel Tips
This is a guest post by Matt Kareus, Editor in Chief of The Safarist and About Galapagos, and Executive Director of the International Galapagos Tour Operators Association. Many of our planet’s most iconic species are reeling from the effects of climate change, habitat loss, the rapidly growing illegal wildlife trade, and other serious threats.
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 beautiful portrait of a mountain gorilla mother and her infant in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda. Photographer Julia Cumes was struck by this mother’s expression as she embraced her infant.
Nature & Wildlife
When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released its Living Planet Report 2014 on September 30, it wasn’t the usual doom-and-gloom environmental news story that is forgotten the next day.
Travel Tales
Valerie Wimberly, a Sky Ambassador in Nat Hab’s air department, shares reflections and photos from her recent trip to Rwanda to see Africa’s endangered mountain gorillas.
Nature & Wildlife
WWF’s Whitney Kent traveled to Africa with her family to see mountain gorillas in the wild. We caught up with her to talk about the experience. WWF Travel: How long did you have to hike before spotting the mountain gorillas? Was it a difficult climb? Whitney Kent: We did two gorilla treks in two separate days.
Conservation
Those of us who have been lucky enough to share our lives with myriad pets over the years need no further proof that nonhuman animals have a high degree of intelligence. Scientists, however, do not have the luxury of going on gut feelings.
Videos
The recent popularity of trail cams and camera traps has resulted in some pretty amazing footage of the natural world, such as that of Bhutan’s mountain tigers and a cougar’s epic journey. On May 9, 2012, another amazing “catch” was made: National Geographic captured a view of Cameroon’s Cross River gorillas.
