News & More
Climate Change: The Consequences of a Canceled Conference
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.
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News & More
The Anthropocene: Dawn of the Age of Humans or Demise of the Earth?
It’s the beginning of a brand-new year, and—in geological terms—it may be the start of a new name for our era.
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Videos
Video: Wear Lionfish Jewelry to Protect the Atlantic Ocean
Lionfish, a colorful native of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans (the Indo-Pacific region) have now taken up what could become permanent residence in the Atlantic Ocean—from North Carolina to Florida, in all Gulf of Mexico states and in the Caribbean. That isn’t good news.
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Travel Tales
10 things I learned in the Peruvian Amazon
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.
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Conservation
Rent a Wild Animal in Australia: A Conservation Innovation?
Allowing wildlife—a public resource—to be transferred into the hands of private operations isn’t a new idea. Many U.S. states allow the practice to generate income in economically stressed areas. Now, however, some Australian conservationists are proposing the same concept, only not just for prey animals, prized for supplying hunting opportunities.
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Videos
Video: “Hearing Beyond” in Natural Landscapes
When the world gets to be too much, when we get too tired of hearing constant messages and always being tuned in, there’s nothing like heading out to a natural spot for some peace and quiet, right? Maybe not. Nature, it turns out, is a noisy place. We rarely achieve true silence when we’re outside.
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Conservation
Go Tell a Polar Bear How Much of the Arctic You’re Melting!
Scientists can now measure individuals’ direct contributions to global climate change—and the results are staggering.
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Travel Tales
Conservation and Traditional Medicine in the Amazon
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.
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News & More
New Year’s 2017: Should “Auld” Acquaintance Be Forgot? I Think Not.
Traditionally, throughout the world on New Year’s Eve, we all join in the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.” The song, whose title roughly translates as “for old times’ sake,” is appropriate for the end of the year because it evokes nostalgia for the past and a longing to preserve longtime friendships.
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Videos
Video: Spend a Few Minutes of Peace in Grand Teton National Park
The end of 2016 marks the closing of the National Park Service’s centennial year. For the past 12 months, we Americans have been appreciating, celebrating and visiting all of our 413 national park units, large and small.
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Nature & Wildlife
Meet WWF’s Jim Sano: A ‘Truly Glorious’ Life as a U.S. Park Ranger
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.
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Conservation
Celebrating Good News for Endangered Species in 2016
During the holiday season, we come together across lands, faiths and cultures to celebrate the persistence of light in the darkness. And we at Natural Habitat Adventures are especially happy to share some good news with you from the natural world.