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  • Latin America

    Visiting the Amazon Rainforest in Style: A Guide for Nature Lovers

    Apr 12, 2025 · Cathy Brown

    For wildlife enthusiasts who travel the planet to experience unique and exciting flora and fauna, a trip deep into the Amazon Rainforest is usually high on the bucket list, alongside a Kenya safari or diving the Great Barrier Reef.

  • Antarctica & Arctic

    10 Fascinating Facts About Penguins

    Apr 10, 2025 · Madison Mitchell

    Imagine a vast expanse of ice and snow, windswept shores, and rugged volcanic islands. Now picture penguins, some waddling clumsily on land, others gliding gracefully underwater, thriving in some of the harshest yet most breathtaking habitats on Earth.

  • African Safaris

    Desert-Adapted Lions: Celebrating Namibia’s Sentinels of Sand

    Apr 8, 2025 · Megan Brief

    Within Africa’s second-youngest country lies the world’s oldest desert, with more than 55 million years of history buried in its shifting sands. The vast Namib Desert extends for 1,200 miles along the Atlantic coast—from Angola southward across Namibia—to the Olifants River in South Africa.

  • Antarctica & Arctic

    Climate Change Is Making Greenland Greener, But Is It a Good Thing?

    Apr 5, 2025 · Cathy Brown

    History and geography teachers often point out the silliness of Greenland’s name. The Arctic country is covered with a barren ice sheet spanning 660,000 square miles, or roughly 80% of the country’s surface. There’s not exactly much green to be found!

  • Asia & The Pacific

    Conservation Success Stories from India’s National Parks

    Apr 5, 2025 · Joel Centano

    In part one of our two-part Q&A with Aditya Panda, we discussed the veteran guide’s favorite national parks in India, which wildlife travelers will encounter on an India safari, and what it’s like to track tigers in the wild (we’ll never forget his vivid account).

  • African Safaris

    Elephants Everywhere, But Where Has the Water Gone?

    Apr 4, 2025 · WWF

    By Bas Huijbregts, WWF African Species Director for the Wildlife Conservation Program, and Jake Sokol, WWF Senior Director of Philanthropy of the Eastern Region “Look at that strange rock!”

  • African Safaris

    Why a Walking Safari in Zambia Might Be Perfect for You

    Apr 4, 2025 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    Picture yourself standing quietly on a sunlit morning in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park, senses fully attuned to the rich tapestry of life around you. The subtle rustling of grasses, distant elephant trumpets and delicate bird songs fill the air.

  • African Safaris

    Top 5 Places in the World to See Penguins

    Apr 4, 2025 · Madison Mitchell

    They slide on their bellies across the snow, congregate on icebergs and seem to fly through freezing water in search of fish. That’s how most people picture penguins: playing among icebergs in Antarctica.

  • News & More

    The Best 5-Day Escapes to U.S. National Parks

    Apr 2, 2025 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    The World’s Leading Nature Travel Company Introduces a Set of Short, Active U.S. National Parks Adventures Nat Hab has unveiled a collection of five-day, small group, active itineraries for compact yet in-depth exploration in Arches, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone national parks.

  • Nature Photography

    Getting Down to the Bones in Patagonia: A Photo Diary

    Apr 1, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Bones are everywhere in Patagonia. They dry on the brown steppes and jut up from the desert’s gray floor. They protrude like blue spikes through the surface of lakes and bleach white on the ocean’s shore. And, right now, mine are shaking.