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In our imaginations, nothing symbolizes our seas more than whales. These bigger-than-life creatures imbue our oceans with life, with song and with majesty, mystery and myth. If anything else represents our oceans more, I can’t think of it. That thought is a bit ironic because there was a time when whales walked the Earth.
Canada & the North
By Nat Hab Traveler Kay Ellen Gilmour, MD | Beluga Whales & Arctic Wildlife of Churchill Lois and I had a marvelous time on this trip.
Travel Tales
—By Nat Hab Traveler Jo Ostrov | Beluga Whales & Arctic Wildlife of Churchill We bump along the surface of the water. Hundreds of beluga whales are at the mouth of the Churchill River, which empties into the enormous Hudson Bay. There are many pairs of mothers and babies in the water.
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By Nat Hab traveler Jim Fuller and Expedition Leader Moira le Patourel. A summertime journey to Churchill reveals another world beyond the tundra—the watery domain of beluga whales! Hear their playful whistles and clicks during this underwater interaction. Their animated singing has earned them the nickname “canaries of the sea.”
Travel Tales
“Trip of a lifetime, it’s not every day you get to pet a gray whale, or two. We saw four blue whales, hundreds of dolphins and dozens of humpback whales. The Nat Geo Sea Bird staff and crew are the best.”
News & More
One hundred and eleven years ago, the American Antiquities Act of 1906 was passed. It authorizes the president to designate federally managed lands as national monuments in order to conserve important archaeological, historic and scientific sites.
Conservation
WWF Senior Policy Officer in Species Conservation, Leigh Henry, leads policy efforts related to wildlife conservation. Since joining the WWF family in 2001, she has helped lead WWF’s efforts with the International Whaling Commission among many other efforts. We sat down to chat with her about whale-viewing in Mexico’s Baja California.
News & More
Recently, in late 2016, hundreds of tufted puffins washed up dead on shores along the Bering Sea in Alaska. Earlier last year, tens of thousands of dead common murres were found on beaches from California to The Last Frontier state. The reason? Climate change and its resultant warming oceans.
News & More
In the past few decades, rapid climate change has certainly revealed a lot about how our planet is being reshaped and modified. Global warming has been linked to wars, the death of the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, and it has even altered our farming techniques.
Nature & Wildlife
Whenever I write about a specific nature or travel topic, I try to think about the extent to which my experience with it has shaped my own life. In the case of the mystical, magical, majestic gray whale, I can only answer by saying, “profoundly.”
News & More
Black Lives Matter. Blue Lives Matter. Veterans Matter. You could probably name a dozen other organizations that work to convince us that all human lives have value. And while most of us can probably get behind the majority of these causes, it turns out that a third of us think nonhuman-animal lives matter, too.
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In some of the last quiet, pristine waters on the British Columbia Coast, humpback whales are making a comeback. In the mid 1960s, when Canada stopped whaling on its West Coast, there were only about 1,500 of them left in the North Pacific.
