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  • Nature & Wildlife

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Time Out Tuesday

    Dec 6, 2019 · Steve Selden

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a polar bear in Manitoba. Photographer Anna Waas took this amazing polar bear shot in Churchill, Manitoba! Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • News & More

    Elk Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

    Dec 5, 2019 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    In November 2018, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), an incurable affliction that infects all species of North American deer, manifested itself near Jackson, WY.

  • Travel Tales

    Making Travelers: View-Masters, Slideshows and Mailed Boxes

    Dec 3, 2019 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    When I was a kid, my mother signed me up for a monthly children’s travel club sponsored by the National Geographic Society. As a member of the club, every 30 days I received a small box in the mail.

  • Asia & The Pacific

    Tasmanian Tiger: Alive or Extinct?

    Nov 30, 2019 · Emily Goodheart

    You may have heard of the Tasmanian devil, but how about the Tasmanian tiger? The largest of the carnivorous marsupials, Thylacinus cynocephalus is believed to have gone extinct 80 years ago. Yet reports of recent encounters have left some questioning whether the Tasmanian tiger still exists.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Winter in Yellowstone

    Nov 29, 2019 · Steve Selden

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a snow-covered bison in Montana! Photographer Rex Arney took this classic bison image in Yellowstone National Park. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Travel Tips

    “Home for the Holidays” and Other Travel Conundrums

    Nov 26, 2019 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    This week, we’ll celebrate Thanksgiving, kicking off what we call the “holiday season”: typically defined as the triumvirate of Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah and New Year’s Eve. It’s also a huge traveling time.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Chasing Cheetah

    Nov 22, 2019 · Steve Selden

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose cheetahs in Botswana. Photographer Paul Sasso captured these cheetahs chasing through the wooded grassland in Mashatu, Botswana! Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Latin America

    On Thanksgiving 2019, Counting Bounty in Butterflies

    Nov 19, 2019 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    In recent years, reports on monarch butterfly populations have been confusing: just two years ago, we were hearing that the monarchs were teetering on the edge of extinction. More recently, however, conservation news headlines have alerted us to increases in monarch butterfly populations—as much as 144 percent in one year.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Spirit Bear

    Nov 15, 2019 · Steve Selden

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a Kermode bear from Canada. Photographer Don McVee got this shot in the Kermode Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia! Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Conservation

    Creating Patagonia – How an American Couple Saved the National Parks

    Nov 14, 2019 · Courtney Nachlas

    Patagonia is known for its stunning lakes, breathtaking glaciers and adorable guanacos, but few individuals know the history behind Patagonia’s national parks. It turns out, it may have a lot more to do with the popular Patagonia and North Face clothing brands than you might think.

  • Canada & the North

    Natural Habitat Adventures Announces Northern Lights Encounter Exclusively for Women

    Nov 14, 2019 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    The first-ever departure will focus on the Arctic through a female lens via outdoor adventures, Indigenous storytelling and learning about powerful women leading lives as entrepreneurs, scientists and trailblazers in Canada’s North Natural Habitat Adventures is pleased to introduce our very first Arctic expedition exclusively for women on the 7-day Northern Lights and Arctic Cultures trips running February 4-10…