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Latin America
It’s no surprise that Costa Rica is a country filled with beautiful natural ecosystems. Its coasts are bustling with marine life, and its interior is blanketed with some of the most biodiverse forests in the world. More than half of Costa Rica is now forested, but that wasn’t always the case.
Nature & Wildlife
The Encyclopedia Britannica currently defines language as “a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed) or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves. The functions of language include communication, the expression of identity, play, imaginative expression and emotional release.”
African Safaris
Driving across the plains of the Serengeti, every sense becomes sharpened: eyes alert as you scan the horizon, inhaling the mingling scents of lemon bush and wild mint, you listen to the echoes of animals calling in the distance, just as Africa has called to you.
Europe
In the northeast corner of England’s Cotswolds, Henry Astor’s family has lived on, farmed and managed over 1,000 acres for three generations.
Europe
Sometimes, the most pastoral landscapes can reveal some of nature’s wildest secrets. Case in point: the refined Cotswold Hills in England. Amid tidy country homes and winding lanes, grand estates and traditional pubs, the region’s quieter natural beauty offers a different sort of adventure than we might expect in Iceland or the Arctic.
African Safaris
Something that stood out during my Kenya Migration Photo Expedition was the presence of family connection throughout so many aspects of our nature adventure. Relationships among groups of people working in the safari industry and the bonds within migrating herds of animals seemed to link everyone and everything together into vast networks of East African kinship.
Europe
Best known for its legendary Port wine and storybook scenery, Portugal’s Douro Valley is also one of Europe’s most rewarding regions for bird enthusiasts. The Douro Valley stretches almost 400 miles across northern Portugal from Porto to the Spanish border.
Nature & Wildlife
Deserts are far from the lifeless, slow-growing and always arid places they’re often depicted to be. For example, even in Chile’s ultradry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes (roundworms) are thriving in surprising diversity.
African Safaris
Botswana encompasses a wide range of ecosystems, from the seemingly barren Makgadikgadi Pans to the Okavango Delta’s intricate network of wetlands and waterways. This part of Africa supports a wide array of wildlife. As I traveled through Botswana with a friend, I witnessed wildlife interactions that continue to fuel my passion for conservation.
Nature & Wildlife
Some tiny birds on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a dramatic evolutionary transformation. Four isolated populations of British wrens have grown astonishingly large. At the other end of the scale, however, leopards in South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region have become much smaller than most African leopards.
Nature & Wildlife
Our Cessna was 5 minutes north of Maun, Botswana, when the landscape changed dramatically. Gone was the dry savanna scrub that had defined the Kalahari and so much of Botswana. In its place were the unmistakable signs of water.
African Safaris
Conservation Through Travel: How Botswana Leads in Sustainable Safaris In today’s world of mindful travel, more explorers are asking how their journeys impact wildlife, ecosystems and communities. The term “sustainable tourism” is everywhere—but not every trip that claims to be conservation-focused delivers on its promises. That’s why researching your travel company matters. The good news?
