Conservation
Ninety-seven percent. In the last 100 years, tiger populations have declined that dramatically, from 100,000 to as few as 3,200 in the wild today. And it’s humans—through rampant poaching and habitat destruction—who are driving these big cats to extinction. Bringing tigers back from the brink takes commitment on a global scale.
Nature & Wildlife
World Wildlife Fund is working hard to save monarch butterflies, which are losing their habitat right in our own backyards. Find out what you know about these amazing creatures. Take the 14-question quiz below, then share your results with your family and friends!
Nature & Wildlife
After many years of writing for WWF and our efforts to create KAZA, a giant protected area spanning five countries in southern Africa, some might think there wouldn’t be anything left for me to learn.
Nature & Wildlife
In order to protect natural places, people need to work together. No one group can solve the conservation challenges of the planet alone. Inspired by WWF’s new “Together Possible” mantra, this occasional series will take a look at innovative ways people are coming together to make a positive impact for the planet.
Nature & Wildlife
“Haven’t I seen you someplace before?” Surely it’s a question the guanaco would get frequently if guanacos were the question-receiving type. Native to mountainous regions of South America, the guanaco is an animal that most people have never heard of but would likely recognize.
Conservation
Each fall, the world’s greatest concentration of polar bears convenes at the edge of Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada, waiting for the sea ice to form and their seal hunting season to begin.
News & More
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, planned to hold a Climate and Health Summit, set for February 14-16, 2017.
Travel Tales
A photo essay based on Natural Habitat Adventure’s Great Amazon River Cruise in Peru. #1: The next installment of Mad Max should be filmed in Iquitos Three-wheeled tuc-tucs and other rolling contraptions dominate Iquitos—the biggest city in the Peruvian Amazon, and our trip’s jumping off point.
Conservation
We’ve closed the books on 2016. It’s natural to want to assess the past year, now that we’ve made it through to the end.
Conservation
Scientists can now measure individuals’ direct contributions to global climate change—and the results are staggering.
Travel Tales
I have a reputation when I travel of attracting the attention of venomous snakes and children. This can be both a curse and a blessing when working for WWF on forest conservation. Luckily, on Natural Habitat’s Great Amazon River Cruise the children were plentiful and the venomous snakes kept to themselves.
Nature & Wildlife
The single-engine Grumman AA-5B plane was barely perceptible on the snowy mountainside. It was January 1982, and World Wildlife Fund’s Jim Sano and his fellow team of search and rescue specialists had been scouring White Mountain at Yosemite National Park in California for five days following a blizzard before they spotted the wreckage.
