Travel Tales
I recently caught up with NHA Expedition Leader Monika Mikulec, born and raised in Croatia, who guides our Nat Hab Expedition trip to the Dalmatian coast: Kayak & Hike the Best of the Balkans.
Travel Tales
Our lanky teenage-looking pilot closed his eyes and prayed quietly before takeoff into the immense, emerald-green void of the Ecuadorian Amazon. His murmurs were indecipherable through the roar of the old rattling Cessna operated by Aerotsentsak, the airline owned by the Achuar indigenous nation.
Travel Tips
Europe was once teeming with wildlife, from the snow-capped tops of mountains to the warm beaches of the Mediterranean. The arrival of humans, agricultural production, exploitation of habitats and the introduction of invasive species have caused major losses in biodiversity.
Travel Tales
Our Galapagos Hiking and Kayaking expedition has grown to be one of our most popular trips. Why? No doubt it has a lot to do with the trip’s charismatic and knowledgeable naturalist guide, Luis Rodriguez, aka Champi.
Travel Tales
With December’s chill enveloping northern Portugal’s Douro Valley, the searing heat of summer is a faded memory. The dark grapes, hanging heavy on the vines that terrace down the mountains to the river, have been picked and crushed, their fermented juice placed in huge oak casks to spend the winter.
News & More
Antibacterial soaps, alcohol wipes and bleach in our everyday cleaning products have made us focused on eliminating all the germs that we possibly can from our lives. And when it comes to our children, it seems that focus turns into an obsession. It’s here, though, where we soon become at odds with nature.
News & More
Nature surrounds us with an amazing variety of animals, insects, birds, plants and topographic features. To refer to and distinguish the entities in this bounty, we assign them names—often two: one for common use and one, a two-parter, for scientific identification. Usually, the person credited with discovering or finding something new gets naming rights.
Videos
When you hear about the great journeys undertaken by some of nature’s smallest creatures, you can’t help but feel inspired to step into adventures of your own that may be outside your comfort zone. And no odyssey is greater than that of the Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea).
Travel Tales
If you’re a parent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, grandparent or friend, you probably know someone who was part of Graduation 2012. And at this time of year, young, degree-holding students are being bombarded with tips and advice during countless graduation speeches across the country.
Conservation
Cute, adorable animals are often used to garner support for environmental causes in places that are remote. After all, it’s hard to have concern for an area that is at the opposite end of the Earth from where you live and for which you have no plans to ever see.
Nature & Wildlife
The gentle Thomsen River has no rapids to interfere with placid viewing of the world’s largest musk ox herd – or other wildlife and Arctic scenery that makes Banks Island so captivating!
Antarctica & Arctic
Big dreams of exploration were not uncommon in the late 1800s and early 1900s. But one explorer may have taken such aspirations to the next level: in 1895, at a London conference on polar exploration, a Swedish engineer named Salomon August Andree declared his intention to reach the North Pole via hot-air balloon.
