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  • Conservation

    Project “Paraiso Quetzal” – Where Conservation Meets Development

    Feb 16, 2023 · WWF

    Costa Rica is known for its natural beauty, advancements in sustainability and conservation, and vast wildlife viewing opportunities. While all these things struck me, what was most inspiring to me was hearing the stories of those who call Costa Rica home.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Sunrise, Sunset and Starry Valentines

    Feb 14, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Cards, chocolates, flowers or a dinner for two by candlelight. Most of us consider these things to be appropriate gifts for those who mean the most to us on Valentine’s Day, the day we set aside each year to celebrate our feelings of love.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Highlights of Bryce Canyon: Helicopters, Historic Lodges and Hoodoos

    Feb 11, 2023 · Megan Brief

    Behold the natural wonders of Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park—with vistas so dramatic, you might think you’ve been transported to a world galaxies away. Pink cliffs melt into vermilion, and red rock canyons carve through the desert as pinnacles rise hundreds of feet into the sky.

  • Europe

    Guiding on Portugal’s River of Wine: A First-Time Nat Hab Expedition Leader’s Story

    Feb 9, 2023 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    Our Nat Hab Expedition Leaders truly do it all. They’re experts at logistics, skilled at navigating group dynamics, and well-versed in the nature, wildlife, culture and history of the areas where they guide. Although they make it look effortless, every guide was once faced with the daunting task of leading their first trip.

  • Alaska

    Roads: The Winter and Wildlife Kind

    Feb 7, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Travel is back. And it’s back in a big way. Following the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, flying is rebounding. But road trips remain one of the most popular forms of traveling in this postpandemic world.

  • Canada & the North

    Beavers: How Nature’s Engineers Are Making a Comeback

    Feb 6, 2023 · Cathy Brown

    The beaver is the largest rodent in North America (and the second-largest in the world after South America’s capybara). They are found in ponds, lakes, rivers, marshes, streams and adjacent wetland areas throughout the U.S. and Canada, with the exception of the California and Nevada deserts and parts of Utah and Arizona.

  • Canada & the North

    6 Whale Species You Can See on a Quebec Nature Tour

    Feb 2, 2023 · Emily Goodheart

    Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park is one of French Canada’s best-kept secrets. Home to more than 2,200 species, this National Marine Conservation Area offers some of the best whale watching in the world. From May through October, these giant marine mammals congregate where the Saguenay River meets the St. Lawrence Estuary.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Five Wetlands to Explore With Natural Habitat Adventures

    Jan 31, 2023 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    From marauding jaguars in Brazil’s Pantanal to docile manatees in the Florida mangroves, from water buffalo browsing in Indian marshes to lurking crocodiles in Australia’s Outback swamps, wildlife flourishes in wetlands worldwide. Natural Habitat Adventures offers exciting wildlife adventures to some of the planet’s most important wetlands.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    How Crows and Ravens Made the World their Home

    Jan 31, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    You know them because you see them in your neighborhood every day. And you certainly have heard their distinctive, harsh caws and kraas. They are crows and ravens, the corvids that are well-known for their black color. Crows can be found all over the world in a variety of habitats.

  • African Safaris

    The Coolness of Zebra Stripes

    Jan 30, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Why zebras have stripes has been a matter for scientific debate for decades. A lot of theories have been put forth, such as they’ve evolved for camouflage, to confuse the vision of biting flies, to bewilder predators with “motion dazzle” or that they’re a means of identification among zebras themselves.

  • Alaska

    Bunk With a Brown Bear: Nat Hab’s New Alaska Bear Camp

    Jan 25, 2023 · Michelle Peters

    Soar by bush plane over Cook Inlet, active volcanoes and massive glaciers en route to a pristine beach in the Alaskan wilderness. Today, you’re headed to camp. Not the summer camp of your past (no swim test required!), but exhilarating all the same.