Conservation
One of my goals while I am guiding in China is to break down some of the stereotypes the world has about this vast, misunderstood country. China certainly has lots of problems and does some things we don’t approve of, but so do the United States, Canada and many other countries!
U.S. National Parks
John Muir revered them. Western settlers nearly wiped them out. The final chapter in the story of North America’s rarest sheep is yet to be written. Watch!
U.S. National Parks
After a long winter—which still seems to be hanging on in some places—people are understandably anxious to get outside and get on the move again. Perhaps we take our cue from the nonhuman animals, which have for millennia followed spring migration routes.
Nature & Wildlife
I’m a tree hugger from way back; in fact, you could say I was hugging trees before tree hugging was cool. So when a book titled The Songs of Trees recently hit store shelves, I couldn’t help but notice.
News & More
Perhaps no issue defines our Anthropocene Age more than climate change. The topic has been in news headlines for more than four decades now, ever since U.S. scientist Wallace Broecker put the term global warming into the public domain in the title of a 1975 scientific paper.
Antarctica & Arctic
Deepwater, mythic and prehistoric creatures, Greenland sharks inhabit the Atlantic Ocean, from Canada to Norway and off the coast of Scotland. When it comes to legends, some have suggested a Greenland shark may actually be the Loch Ness Monster. As for its prehistoric characterization, this fish can live up to 500 years or more.
Nature & Wildlife
More than 400 shark species inhabit our planet. And while facts about some of them may be well-known to researchers and the rest of us, there are many shark species whose behaviors remain mysterious and secretive. In mid-April 2018, we learned that the actions of basking sharks fell into that latter category.
News & More
Natural Habitat Adventures celebrates the life of a remarkable woman and champion of elephant conservation, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, who passed away at the age of 83 this month. Daphne created the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in 1977, naming it after her late husband who was a founding warden of Tsavo East, Kenya’s largest national park.
Nature & Wildlife
There is nothing more satisfying than when our travelers experience “that one magic animal encounter moment in the wild,” whether it is a few seconds of eye contact with the infinitely wise eyes of a wild silverback gorilla in the jungle foliage in Uganda, the leviathan blowhole smell of a humpback whale close-up from…
Videos
According to legend, Raven went among the black bears and promised that every 10th bear cub would be born white as a reminder of the time when the world was pure and clean and covered with snowdrifts and glaciers.
Nature & Wildlife
Our home library in Georgia is brimming with all kinds of dog-eared books about adventure, conservation, economics and science. The exception is a dozen of wooden boxes piled up high on top of the shelves, smelling of camphor and filled with pin-mounted butterflies.
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.
