Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Videos

    Videos: Watch as Robotic Animals Secretly “Spy” on Wildlife

    Jun 22, 2017 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Camera traps, GPS tracking and radio-collaring are all tools that researchers have traditionally used to study the wildlife that shares the planet with us. But it seems there’s now another method—an ingenious one—that allows us to unobtrusively infiltrate communities in the natural world without letting our very presence alter them.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    When Animals Gather, Our Language Gets Lyrical

    Jun 6, 2017 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    When we get together to appreciate the arts, for political purposes, for social interactions or simply for support, we can be called, among other things, an audience, a band, a bunch, a cohort, a crowd, a group, a mob or a troupe.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Water Crossing

    Jun 2, 2017 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a moment from a drive in Zambia. Photographer Jim Trojanowski was on safari with Nat Hab near Busanga Bush Camp when his group witnessed this lioness leaping across a waterway.

  • Travel Tales

    Traveler Story: Botswana’s Green Season Photo Safari

    May 29, 2017 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    Traveler L. Horton captured the photographs shown below during a Botswana’s Green Season Photo Safari with Natural Habitat Adventures in February 2017. — L. Horton | Botswana’s Green Season Photo Safari | February 2017 What’s Your Nature Travel Story?

  • Videos

    Traveler Video of a Botswana Safari

    May 26, 2017 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    Traveler Bobby Jacobsen produced this video documenting a custom Botswana Safari with Natural Habitat Adventures. Be sure to watch the whole film—there’s a phenomenal wildlife sighting at the end!

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Impala Reflections

    May 26, 2017 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected impalas lined up at a water hole. Photographer Patricia Rosen took this photo while on safari in the Okavango Delta. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Botswana Safari Surprises Travelers with Rare Leopard Sighting

    Apr 26, 2017 · WWF

    WWF Senior Writer, Deborah Ackerman had a rare and thrilling sight while accompanying a Nat Hab trip through Botswana: a mother leopard carrying her newborn cubs across the KAZA landscape during green season—the time of year when most animals in Botswana’s Okavango Delta give birth.

  • Conservation

    Development Threatens Nearly Half of All Natural World Heritage Sites

    Apr 18, 2017 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System. The Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. These are just three of the 238 natural and mixed (cultural and natural) sites designated as World Heritage by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. And all three are threatened by human development.

  • Travel Tales

    Traveler Story: Botswana—Kalahari, the Delta & Beyond

    Apr 17, 2017 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    “One evening, after a long day of safari drives in the bush, we came upon a young male lion right as dusk was falling. Rather than head back to camp, we decided to follow him for a while.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Water!

    Apr 7, 2017 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose elephants splashing in a waterhole. While he was out on a game drive in Zimbabwe, photographer Jim Trojanowski watched several herds of elephants come through this spot to bathe and drink.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Five Surprising Things You Learn While Traveling in KAZA

    Mar 29, 2017 · WWF

    After many years of writing for WWF and our efforts to create KAZA, a giant protected area spanning five countries in southern Africa, some might think there wouldn’t be anything left for me to learn.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: High Up on a Limb

    Mar 24, 2017 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a leopard out of Mala Mala in South Africa.