Nature & Wildlife
Every night on Earth, a great migration takes place. It’s bigger than the ones of caribou, wildebeest or zebras on land or Arctic terns in the air. But while this stupendous, nightly migration overshadows all the others, you’ve probably never heard of it. And even more surprising is the fact that it’s vertical.
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.
Videos
In 1942, there were fewer than 20 whooping cranes left alive in the world. Their habitats were vanishing, and they had been hunted almost to extinction. If we were to keep them from blinking out, we needed to think in new and bold ways. With the help of science, we did.
News & More
The monarch butterfly migration is quite simply one of the most jaw-dropping spectacles on earth. While one may initially think that the migration event is one dimensional (after all, it is just one species, right?), it couldn’t be further from the truth.
Nature & Wildlife
By Chris Kassar Imagine enormous herds of wildebeest and zebra traversing the East African plains while predators follow in stealthy pursuit. It’s something you’ve almost certainly seen on film, and now you can witness this dramatic event in person during the Great Migration.
Latin America
By Kate Willingham, Destination Manager at Natural Habitat Adventures I’ve always loved butterflies. Growing up, I would tromp around our backyard looking for Eastern tiger swallowtails or their caterpillar counterpart, catching them with my bare hands, housing them in butterfly terrariums, and every now and then bringing them to my kindergarten show-and-tell.
Nature & Wildlife
Newsworthy, noteworthy, and utterly fascinating. Monarch butterflies routinely make the news—for good reason. The migration of the monarch butterfly is considered by scientists a unique phenomenon, and one of the largest animal migrations on Earth.
Videos
Each spring, more than 500,000 sandhill cranes come together on a narrow stretch of the Platte River in central Nebraska, as they have for thousands of years.
African Safaris
Christian Ghammachi wasn’t the first person to embark upon an epic motorcycle trip across Africa. But he may have been the first to bring a drone along to capture aerial footage of his adventure.
Conservation
Monarch butterfly populations have decreased so drastically over the past decade that a successful recovery is only hopeful.
Conservation
From the tiny monarch butterfly to the immense wildebeest of Africa, many of the world’s animal species take on great migrations. Those epic travels may involve seasonal journeys of thousands of miles, traversing multiple countries. For them, our human political boundaries have no meaning.
Videos
For nearly 6,000 years, pronghorn have made an annual migration from their summer range around the highlands of Grand Teton National Park to their wintering grounds, located about 170 miles south in the sagebrush-covered Upper Green River Valley near the town of Pinedale, Wyoming.
