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News & More
Watch The Guide and read on for an exclusive interview with Nat Hab Expedition Leader Colby Brokvist! “What’s the difference between a national forest and a national park?” “Is this plant edible?” “What kind of animal made this scat?”
Conservation
The Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed into law on August 16, 2022, includes the most ambitious climate spending package in the country’s history. Its objective is to infuse $369 billion into the economy to fight climate change and set the nation on a path to reach our carbon emissions-cutting goals.
News & More
One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon them in the early 15th century? The consensus view has long been that colder temperatures, associated with the Little Ice Age, helped make the colonies unsustainable.
Conservation
After the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror imposed ‘Forest Law’ on the Anglo-Saxons to defend the king’s sovereign rights to all wild animals. The Forest Law applied to all the land used by fauna, as well as any land the animals passed through.
Alaska
In Alaska, there is an incredibly remote and breathtakingly beautiful place where the brown bears gather in mass, the salmon fill the pristine rivers and streams, bald eagles soar high above, the sedges grow high, and the “land of the midnight sun” shines on what I would come to know as Bear Camp.
African Safaris
Southern Africa is home to some of the world’s most majestic animals, along with the world’s largest transboundary protected region to help conserve wild expanses. In 2011, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe came together to formally recognize a 106-million-acre region in Africa’s Kavango and Zambezi river basins as a protected wildlife area.
Galapagos Islands
Turtles and tortoises are some of the oldest living reptiles, having roamed the earth for more than 200 million years. Many people call tortoises turtles, and that’s not wrong. Tortoises are, in fact, turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises.
African Safaris
We’re thrilled to announce that our film Exploring the Okavango | A Botswana Traveler Story has been selected as a finalist for the Adventure Travel Trade Association’s 2022 Adventure in Motion Short Film Contest!
Nature & Wildlife
What sparked the COVID-19 pandemic remains a mystery, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. Several hypotheses exist, but each lacks sufficient evidence to explain the cause of the crisis. Many scientists believe that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, spread from animals to humans—known as zoonotic transmission—in late 2019.
Conservation
“Re:wild: The Search for Lost Species” sounds like the title of an action-adventure movie, and in a way, this ambitious and optimistic initiative contains all of the plot lines to keep us nature lovers on the edge of our seats.
Nature & Wildlife
From swimming sea turtles and playful dolphins to gentle manatees, here are five aquatic animals you can see on a nature tour of Florida’s coastal waters and mangroves. 1. Sea Turtles Florida has five species of sea turtles that nest along its coast.
Asia & The Pacific
The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) officially became extinct in January 2000, when a falling tree landed on Celia, the world’s last wild Pyrenean ibex. Unfortunately, what led up to that unhappy incident was a sad history for this wild mountain goat. Several species of ibex once lived across Africa, Asia and Europe.
