Videos
With their fierce, intense eyes, deadly claws and hooked beaks, bald eagles have adorned flags and led armies into battle throughout the ages. The national emblem of the United States since 1782—and a spiritual symbol for Native Americans for far longer—the bald eagle is the very embodiment of our ideas about power, freedom and independence.
Conservation
Over one-third of all animal species in the world lives in the Amazon River system and its surrounding rainforest. Among all this flying, creeping, swimming, slithering, running, climbing fauna, the Amazon pink river dolphins are an especially appealing presence with their playful nature and pastel coloration.
Conservation
A shiny red bauble that hangs on Olaf Malver’s Christmas tree — found in a most unlikely spot — is a reminder of what ecotourism can bring to communities and the guests that explore the natural environs around them.
Videos
Not since Al Gore’s 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth has such a powerful documentary feature film come out about the Earth’s changing climate.
Videos
As with the film footage of the last known imperial woodpecker or the remains of the last passenger pigeon, seeing video of the final member of any animal’s kind is sad and eerie, and a good reminder of how fragile our planet and its life-forms are.
Conservation
The exhausting November 2012 presidential election is finally over. Now we Americans begin what can be another long and involved phase: analysis of that election.
Videos
It’s fall in Wisconsin where I live; and during these moody, gray November days, the white-tailed deer “begin to run,” as we say. It’s the time of year when I see them the most.
Conservation
Today, November 6, 2012, is Election Day in the United States. This is the day when the American people decide who will become their next president. It also denotes the end of ubiquitous, annoying and often bitter political campaign ads—at least for a while.
Videos
Perhaps there are times when the land needs us to give it not only a practical respect, but a little spiritual appreciation, as well.
Conservation
On your bucket list of travel destinations, there are probably several United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage sites: the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, Machu Picchu in Peru, or the fjords, rocky coasts and waterfalls of southwest New Zealand. It’s no wonder that your list intersects with that of UNESCO’s.
Conservation
As wildlife seekers and nature enthusiasts, we tend to rank state and national parks high on our lists of favorite travel destinations.
Nature & Wildlife
I used to think that some of the world’s best nature and travel books could be found in the children’s section of my local bookstore.
