Conservation
Conservation and Tourism Go Hand in Hand
While visiting Costa Rica with Natural Habitat Adventures last year, I once again had an opportunity to see how embracing conservation enhances communities.
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Nature & Wildlife
Monarch Butterflies are Making a Rebound
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.
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News & More
Bison Named Our National Mammal: Bad Omen for the Species?
We now have a national mammal, and it’s Bison bison. On Monday, May 9, 2016, President Obama signed the National Bison Legacy Act, honoring American bison with this first-ever designation.
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Videos
Video: River Set on Fire in an Area with Fracking
A picture is worth a thousand words—or at least that’s the idea behind the actions of Jeremy Buckingham, a Greens Party member of the Australian Parliament.
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News & More
What Size Wilderness?
Scarface is dead. Otherwise known as Bear No. 211, the Yellowstone National Park bruin was shot and killed just outside the park in Gallatin National Forest in November 2015. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed the death just two weeks ago, on April 25, 2016.
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Conservation
Listen, and You Might Actually Hear Climate Change
The image of a polar bear stranded on an ice floe. Herds of thousands of walruses hauled out on land, deprived of their sunning platforms of choice: sea ice. Videos from NASA simulating how carbon dioxide moves through the atmosphere and travels around the globe.
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Nature & Wildlife
Q-and-A with WWF: Nepal, One Year after the Earthquake
In 2015, Shubash Lohani, Director of Sustainable Landscapes within WWF’s Forests team, was traveling through Nepal & Bhutan with a group of WWF supporters. Two days were left in the trip, when a devastating earthquake hit Nepal on April 25th, registering 7.8 on the Richter scale.
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Videos
Video: “The Messenger” Movie’s Memo about Songbirds
Imagine a world without birdsong. That’s the scenario a new documentary, titled The Messenger, wants you to envision, because it could actually happen sooner than we think. Songbird populations throughout the world are in trouble. By some estimates, we may have lost almost half of the songbirds that filled the skies only 40 years ago.
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Nature & Wildlife
12 Natural World Heritage Sites to Visit this Year
Nearly half – 114 out of 229 – of all natural World Heritage sites are threatened by harmful industrial activities, according to a new WWF report. However, millions of people rely on these sites and its natural resources for basic human needs such as water, food and shelter.
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Conservation
Recreation vs. Conservation in National Parks: Will Enjoyment Equal Support?
When President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service on August 25, 1916, I doubt he anticipated that one of the statute’s words would cause a lot of controversy 100 years later.
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Travel Tales
Encounters with the Wild Patagonian Puma
It was our first evening at EcoCamp Patagonia when we saw it—our first puma. Relaxing on a cool evening, a female puma lay at the bottom of a large hill directly below camp.
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Nature & Wildlife
Good News: Increase in Wild Tiger Global Estimate
According to the best available data, around 3,890 tigers exist in the wild. This is an increase from the global estimate in 2010 which counted as few as 3,200. This updated figure was compiled from IUCN data and the latest national tiger surveys, which demonstrate rising tiger populations in India, Bhutan, Nepal and Russia.