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 thirsty jaguar in Brazil. Photographer Marcelo Melo was traveling along a river when he came across this big cat on the riverbank. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Travel Tales
In the summer of 2016, I was fortunate enough to join one of our Jaguars & Wildlife of Brazil’s Pantanal departures to explore both the northern and southern regions of the Pantanal wetlands.
Travel Tales
I love monkeys. What can I say? I think it could be a genetic thing because everyone in my family seems to have a fondness for these creatures.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose two lounging female jaguars. On a recent trip to the Pantanal, while boating down a river, photographer Leslie Geffen spotted these ladies resting in the shade on a sunny day.
Conservation
WWF’s Meg Symington on saving the world’s largest rain forest I was only 21 years old in 1982 when I traveled to Manu National Park in the Peruvian Amazon to do field research on spider monkeys. I ended every day in awe of the forest.
Conservation
Across the United States, more than 715 million acres of wild lands in thousands of holdings are protected, thanks to measures such as the Wilderness Act of 1964.
News & More
For decades now, climate change has been altering habitats and causing a major shift of ecosystems northward. Unable to adjust quickly enough, some cold-adapted species are being forced to relocate to higher latitudes as warmer temperatures push them out of their traditional environs. For some warm-weather species, habitats are expanding.
News & More
Natural Habitat Adventures was recently invited by USA TODAY to sit on the Expert Panel for their latest 10Best Readers’ Choice Award, “Best Place for Wildlife.” We were honored to be chosen as the authority on wildlife travel!
Latin America
The Pantanal is the largest wetland in South America and the largest wetland in the world that has not been substantially modified by humans. The sheer abundance of large birds, reptiles and mammals mark its importance as a huge reservoir of biodiversity.
Videos
Described as “An around-the-world journey celebrating our sacred Earth; six-years in the making … seven continents … 24 countries,” Terra Sacra—the six-minute film that you are about to see, below—is an unforgettable, time-lapse journey to our planet’s ancient monuments and most remote landscapes.
Nature & Wildlife
Lying on the border of Brazil and Argentina, Iguacu Falls was born millions of years ago, likely the result of a volcanic eruption and from the slow but steady movement of tectonic plates. It was simply but aptly named “Great Falls” by local Indians. 10.
Nature & Wildlife
Go on a safari in Africa and you’ll hear plenty about the “Big 5.” The term originally referred to the top five species that hunters sought on their bucket list but has now evolved to mean the top five big mammals in Africa—those being the lion, elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and rhino.
