Nature & Wildlife
Northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta was recently inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage Site, among the ranks of 26 other extraordinary places including India’s Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area, the Phillipines’ Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary, and Denmark’s Stevns Klint geological site.
Nature & Wildlife
Africa’s Great Migration has long been a symbol of the continent’s abundant wildlife. The Serengeti Plains fill with millions of wildebeests and other animals, all traveling from the Ngorongoro region in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara in Kenya in search of food and water as the seasons change.
Travel Tales
This travel tale is brought to you by Megan Bryant, NHA Africa Adventure Director Last month, I was enjoying a stay at Savuti Camp in the Linyanti Reserve of northern Botswana, a place I had been before and one that tends to exceed expectations in wildlife viewing.
Travel Tales
Guest post by Holly Glessner, Air Specialist at Natural Habitat Adventures Prior to a recent Nat Hab safari in Botswana I had the chance to briefly visit Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town is a beautiful city on the cost of South Africa.
Nature Photography
Last month’s post “Botswana’s Green Season vs. Dry Season: When to Go?” was so popular, we wanted to show you what the “green season” looks like with some spectacular Botswana photos.
Travel Tips
By Marsea Nelson, Guest Blogger Botswana’s dry season—occurring June through September—is traditionally the most popular time to visit the southern Africa nation. Animals are plentiful and easily seen, and the weather is usually pleasant.
Travel Tales
In light of NHA Guide Thuto Moutloatse being named Best Safari Guide by Outside Magazine, we are sharing this story from WWF Board Member Emeritus Gordon Orians about his adventure with Thuto in Botswana. We flew northeast from Seba Camp in Botswana’s Okavango Delta to the Chobe airstrip.
Nature & Wildlife
Go on a safari in Africa and you’ll hear plenty about the “Big 5.” The term originally referred to the top five species that hunters sought on their bucket list but has now evolved to mean the top five big mammals in Africa—those being the lion, elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and rhino.
African Safaris
Guest Post by Ted Martens, reprinted with permission from Oh, The Places We’ll Go. By the end of our time in Southern Africa, we thought we were African safari gurus. I mean, what first-time Africa travelers go on more than 40 safari drives in one visit?
Travel Tips
It’s December 31, the eve of a brand-new year. Time for reflection on the past 12 months and dreams of how we’ll make 2014 even better. And that puts us into the territory of New Year’s resolutions.
Nature & Wildlife
Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulverized nearly six tons of illegal African and Asian elephant ivory. A conservative estimate of this ivory, which was seized at our nation’s ports of entry from the late 1980s to the present, is that it represents 2,000 animals.
Conservation
On Monday, May 6, 2013, 17 heavily armed poachers entered Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic. They then proceeded to a large clearing known as Dzanga Bai, or “village of elephants,” where between 50 and 200 of the animals congregate daily to drink in the mineral salts found in the sands.
