Travel Tips
Costa Rica has long been known as one of the most amazing, exotic and pristine eco-adventure destinations in the world. From beaches to volcanic mountains, from misty cloud forests to tropical rain forests, it offers families a matchless natural destination for adventure.
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 hummingbird in Costa Rica. Photographer Marian Herz captured this photo while waiting in the lounge for the guide. You never know when you’ll get a great shot! See the full story here!
Conservation
Some would argue that Costa Rica, which encompasses one of the most beautiful and biologically diverse regions on Earth, leads the world in ecotourism. Others would go so far as to suggest that it successfully pioneered the concept on a mass scale decades ago.
Conservation
With an increase in Lyme disease in the U.S. this spring, ecologists are searching for ways to control the spread of the disease. Recent evidence suggests that a higher biodiversity within ecosystems may in fact lower a human’s likelihood of contracting the disease, according to a recent NPR report.
Nature & Wildlife
Costa Rica is about the size of West Virginia yet contains about 5 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Accompanying a Costa Rica adventure with WWF and Nat Hab, I saw enough to fill my camera’s memory card.
Travel Tales
This travel tale is brought to you by Sarah Knight, Pre-Trip Services Manager at Natural Habitat Adventures. For people who don’t think they are into birding, a visit to a destination like Costa Rica can offer convincing reasons to reconsider!
Nature & Wildlife
We had just finished a wonderfully grueling hike in the Tiskita Jungle, located along pristine coastline in the southwest corner of Costa Rica within a 300-acre private biological reserve. We sat under an almond tree to shade ourselves from the hot sun and rest our well-earned, aching muscles.
Nature & Wildlife
Thankfully, the country of Costa Rica recognized the gift of its incredible biodiversity early on, and began protecting it with an extensive network of national parks, wildlife refuges and biological reserves. Our four Costa Rica itineraries visit numerous protected areas; here are just five of our favorite.
Conservation
When you travel the world to see unique wildlife and diverse landscapes, you are also helping the local communities you visit! Saturday is the UN’s World Tourism Day and this year’s theme is “Tourism & Community Development”, a subject near and dear to our hearts at Nat Hab and WWF.
Conservation
If you’ve read my other ecotourism posts here, you’re probably familiar with my emphatic stance on ecotourism’s potential in the conservation of environments and cultures. But, I think it’s about time to break out some cold hard facts about the accomplishments and milestones already made by this thing called ecotourism.
Travel Tips
There’s no doubt that the print publishing world is rapidly changing, and perhaps nowhere is the revolving nature of the industry being played out more visibly than in the travel guidebook genre.
News & More
In 1719, when cartographer John Senex was drawing a map of the English empire in America, there was still a lot that was unknown. The little information about this “new land” that he did have came from the accounts of various Jesuit and French explorers, and not much of it matched.
