Nature & Wildlife
Our Planet brilliantly encapsulates the idea that our wild places are worth protecting. Detailed within each episode are accounts of spectacular natural phenomena, such as the super blooms that occur once every decade in California’s deserts after a cloudburst.
Asia & The Pacific
By Wendy Redal, Editorial Director at Natural Habitat Adventures 1. Tigers are vulnerable Tigers are the most vulnerable and threatened cats on earth; possibly as few as 3200 are left in the wild. 2. Tigers have been around a long time Tigers have roamed Asia for more than a million years!
Nature & Wildlife
Because of ongoing and potential loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from climate change, polar bears were listed as a threatened species in the United States under the Endangered Species Act in May 2008.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a tiger in India. Photographer Michael Cadem’s guide positioned him in the right place to capture the moment this tiger made eye contact while drinking at a water hole.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a relaxing scene out of India. Photographer Abhaya Shukla was photographing tigers in multiple parks, patiently waiting for the perfect cat pose, and finally captured it in Ranthambore National Park.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a tiger taking a moment in Kanha National Park. Photographer Elaine Schmitt captured this moment while on Nat Hab’s Grand India Wildlife Adventure. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Asia & The Pacific
Tigers are inspirational. Their extraordinary nature and symbolism moves people to act and make bold commitments. In 2010, leaders of the 13 countries that are home to tigers agreed on an ambitious conservation goal: to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022. This is the TX2 Goal.
Conservation
Tigers need room to roam. Protecting vast connected landscapes for these endangered top predators is key to their survival. For the first time in a century, wild tiger populations are rising. Spurred by the global Tx2 effort, 13 countries that are home to tigers committed to doubling the imperiled cat’s population by 2022.
Conservation
There’s a sinister bill making its way through Congress, but you probably don’t know about it. The reason you don’t know about it is because of its name. It’s called the “SAVES Act” (Saving America’s Endangered Species Act, H.R. 2603). Sounds like it could be a good law, right? You couldn’t be more wrong.
Videos
Around the world, deforestation is causing millions of species to lose their natural habitats. Estimates are that tracts half the size of England are lost annually, and scientists say that the world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of clearing.
Videos
Watching wild animals being returned to their natural habitats after an accident or injury is immensely gratifying and often thrilling. Restoring even just a bit of nature makes our hearts instinctively feel that a wrong is being righted. Our senses of justice are assuaged.
Travel Tales
“Early in the morning, we came upon a mother tiger and her two precious three-month-old cubs bonding together out in the open. Mother tiger was licking her two cubs and clearly loving them. It was a privilege and an honor to sit quietly observing this behavior.
