News & More
Celebrate Yellowstone’s 150th Anniversary This Summer
Yellowstone National Park’s 150th anniversary celebrates the birth of the world’s first national park, setting the stage for others of its kind around the globe.
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Latin America
Astounding Plants that Look Like Animals
When I was a kid, my mom took our family to see Disney’s Pete’s Dragon, a musical fantasy film that featured a large green animated dragon named Elliott who had the ability to make himself invisible. I fell in love with Elliott’s expressive face, floppy ears and pink tuft of hair.
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Canada & the North
Brown Bears and Polar Bears and Their Tangled Histories
A “time line” of nearly any animal’s existence is an almost-oxymoron, if you ask me. Time lines can make things seem as if they progressed in a linear manner. But life is a lot messier than that. Sometimes things go forward, then back again, and they can even do loop the loops and veer sideways.
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Europe
Murren, Switzerland: A Living Postcard
By Nat Hab Expedition Leader Eddy Savage Murren, Switzerland, is one of the hidden gems on our Wild Switzerland expedition. This tiny hamlet is tucked high on a ridge that is teeming with waterfalls hundreds of feet high and is only accessible by gondola from the Lauterbrunnen Valley below.
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Nature Photography
Natural Habitat Adventures Highlights Intensive New Photo Pro Expeditions
These in-depth adventures are designed for serious photographers in search of iconic wildlife and nature shots in some of the world’s most photogenic places. Natural Habitat Adventures has introduced a series of ‘Photo Pro Expeditions’ designed for serious photographers with advanced skills and a deep commitment to the craft.
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Alaska
Petitioning for Pebble
Now is the critical moment to sign on and support Bristol Bay conservation…again The final battle is intensifying in an epic three-decade struggle between an open-pit mine and Earth’s largest sockeye salmon run.
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Conservation
World Rainforest Day
The Time is Now Established in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership, World Rainforest Day recognizes forests as one of the most powerful and cost-effective climate change mitigation tools we have. Their partner network comprises a global body of Indigenous groups, policy representatives, youth leaders and nonprofit organizations.
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Nature & Wildlife
A Story of Blue Whales and a “Book” of Baleen
A pod of orcas grabbed the headlines in late March 2019. Researchers performing their annual dolphin and whale surveys off the southwestern coast of Australia stumbled across an orca attack on a healthy, adult blue whale. They recorded the event, which had never been documented before.
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Asia & The Pacific
The Rise of the Tiger
Big Cats in the Wild There are two recognized subspecies of tigers: the continental (Panthera tigris tigris) and the Sunda (Panthera tigris sondaica). Since 2017, IUCN has recognized two tiger subspecies, commonly referred to as the continental tiger and the Sunda island tiger.
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Asia & The Pacific
A Tiger Safari in India: A Photographer’s Dream
It was the Vice President of the National Geographic Society who said, “I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.” The magic of photography is that a single photo can tell a thousand stories. What stories of India will you tell?
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Conservation
Where It Counts: Enumerating Elephants and Listing Lions
To decide whether an animal population is threatened or even on the brink of extinction, you need to know, at least approximately, how many individuals are left and if those numbers are increasing or decreasing. In other words, you can’t protect wildlife if you can’t monitor it.
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Travel Tips
5 National Parks to Visit During Wildflower Season
Does anything shout springtime more than a field of cheerful, colorful wildflowers? While we often give the natural scenery and the wildlife top billing when it comes to visiting our national parks, these fleeting flowers deserve their own recognition.