Conservation
Brilliant and skillful in its storytelling, the emotions Our Planet evokes are all at once awe-inspiring, mesmerizing and heart-wrenching. This gripping portrait of the critical condition of our planet highlights key conservation issues, which can be boiled down to one problem: our world is becoming less wild.
Travel Tips
Being an inveterate introvert, I avoid large crowds—well, really, even groups of people numbering 15 or more—like the plague.
Travel Tales
We were hiking in Andasibe National Park when we came upon this gray bamboo lemur. Gray bamboo lemurs are vertical climbers, and they jump from stalk to stalk in thick bamboo forests. But this one just stared intently at me with his big eyes.
Conservation
Deep in the rainforest, in the cover of darkness, the lucky traveler may come across the luminous, piercing eyes of the Aye-aye high in the canopy. Encounters with these elusive lemurs are extremely rare, so little is known of their behavior in the wild.
Travel Tales
In June 2017, Nat Hab traveler Ardelle Fellows encountered wild lemurs and more as she explored the wondrous biodiversity of Earth’s most unique island on a small-group Madagascar Wildlife Adventure. This African island is essentially living time capsule, a “lost world” that’s home some of the planet’s most unusual (and photogenic) species.
Nature & Wildlife
Last year, I joined a group of Nat Hab travelers on a fourteen-day Madagascar safari beginning on the island’s central plateau. In Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park, our Nat Hab group connected with Domoina Rakotomalala, WWF Madagascar’s Landscape Manager for the Tulear region.
Travel Tales
I have wanted to travel to Madagascar ever since I first learned about it in third grade. In July 2015, I finally had my chance to tour this large island off the southeast coast of Africa.
Nature & Wildlife
Exploring one of the planet’s most unique–and imperiled–biodiversity hotspots with Nat Hab and WWF. Mandehandeha mahita raha. Those who travel see much. I was raised on stories of the geat red island. In the 1960s, my mother moved to Madagascar, and in 1972 my parents met in the city of the thousand–Antananarivo.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our new Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose this brown lemur in Madagascar. Photographer Caroline Gilmore captured this photo while on a visit to Ranomafana National Park with Natural Habitat Adventures where she says she saw over 21 lemur species.
Nature & Wildlife
There has been a lot of good news for endangered and “missing” wildlife lately, which seems like a breath of fresh air amid all the dire headlines about rapid climate change and environmental degradation.
Nature & Wildlife
NHA Adventure Specialist Andrea Reynolds updates us on IMAX’s latest wildlife flick, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar. Lemurs are fascinating primates that are unique to Madagascar, with 33 species roaming Africa’s largest island. These entertaining animals are the feature of a recently-released IMAX movie which chronicles their plight.
Videos
While on a trip to Madagascar, NHA Conservation Travel Specialist Court Whelan captured some beautiful video footage of Madagascar’s mammals, reptiles, and insects. Watch these 30-second clips starring the wildlife of this biodiverse African island nation. Lemurs, chameleons, and giraffe beetles are all species you’ll see on our Madagascar Wildlife Adventure trip!
