Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose an elephant herd in Kenya. Photographer Yochi Levanon captured this amazing image of an elephant heard in Amboseli park. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Nature & Wildlife
In honor of Mother’s Day, we’ve made a list of the matriarchal animal societies you can see on a trip with Natural Habitat Adventures. Check out which moms rule the roost below! Elephants Elephants are incredibly empathetic animals—studies have shown they mourn their dead, have long-term memories and possess the ability to love.
Nature & Wildlife
Our Planet brilliantly encapsulates the idea that our wild places are worth protecting. Detailed within each episode are accounts of spectacular natural phenomena, such as the super blooms that occur once every decade in California’s deserts after a cloudburst.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a family of elephants. Photographer Gary Herman took this shot while on safari in Amboseli National Park. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Travel Tales
Kayaking the Seven Seas has given me plenty of fantastic wildlife encounters to marvel at, but what floated some hundred feet in front of my boat in the Indian Ocean on that hot afternoon was simply extraordinary. It looked like a gray, wrinkled python, with bristly hair on its neck.
Conservation
Some scientists, such as American biologist, naturalist, theorist and author E. O. Wilson, say that a majority of wild species will go extinct if humans don’t set aside at least 50 percent of the Earth in conservation areas.
Conservation
A sophisticated 22-pound GPS collar may be the most valuable bling on the African continent. Seven-ton elephants are now donning advanced satellite tracking devices that let their movements be monitored in real time—technology that’s proving to be a boon for pachyderms and a bust for poachers.
Nature & Wildlife
We stare in awe as three generations of lioness – a grandmother, mother and two cubs – saunter peacefully near our 4×4. Their blonde, sun-soaked coats blend harmoniously into the surrounding golden grass and for a moment, in the warm silence, it feels like we are in harmony with them too.
Nature & Wildlife
More than 1,500 “national” days have been declared, according to the National Day Calendar. For example, January 2 is National Cream Puff Day. March 4 is Marching Music Day. The first Saturday in May is National Start Seeing Monarchs Day. And don’t forget World Emoji Day on July 17.
News & More
Natural Habitat Adventures celebrates the life of a remarkable woman and champion of elephant conservation, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, who passed away at the age of 83 this month. Daphne created the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in 1977, naming it after her late husband who was a founding warden of Tsavo East, Kenya’s largest national park.
Videos
Plastics were originally invented to save animals. Let that fact sink in for a moment because it’s sadly ironic. Today, plastic plays a large part in killing them.
News & More
Sometimes, it’s the small, quiet things that rightly should command our utmost attention. Such a situation occurred on March 1, 2018, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) wrote a memorandum stating that it was reversing a 2014 ban imposed by the Obama administration on elephant trophy imports.
