African Safaris
There is a lot of really bad conservation news coming out of Africa these days. Most notably, surging demand for illegal wildlife products in Asian markets has created a devastating rhino and elephant poaching crisis across the continent.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose this mother and baby in a plush green valley of Serengeti National Park. Photographer Barbara Hayton was almost overwhelmed watching all of the young elephants with their mothers, describing the scene as a nursery.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a baby elephant in Botswana. Photographer Robert Keyser took this photo while watching a caring mother with her curious baby in the Moremi Wildlife Reserve. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
African Safaris
Have you ever been to the Peabody Hotel in Memphis? It’s famous for the resident flock of ducks that march through its lobby twice a day. Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park has Africa’s super-sized answer to the Peabody’s ducks.
Conservation
The classical elemental forces of nature are air, earth, fire and water. But there are other great environmental powers that have a beating heart, such as when millions of wild animals come together as one to surge across an endless African plain. Such is the Great Migration of wildebeests in Kenya and Tanzania.
Conservation
Within the open expanse of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge just outside Denver, you’ll find an unseemly sight – a large government building surrounded by short-grass prairie and wetlands.
Videos
Check out one of our newest wildlife videos, featuring amazing elephant footage from our Kenya safaris! Most of these scenes were filmed by Court Whelan, Nat Hab’s Conservation Travel Specialist. Watch as these magnificent animals waltz peacefully through three different regions in Kenya: Samburu National Reserve and the famed Maasai Mara National Reserve.
African Safaris
This remarkable video is a little hard to watch at first, but as the title above suggests, it has a happy ending (for the elephant, at least). Somehow, a young elephant that was separated from his herd managed to survive the onslaught of 14 female lions.
African Safaris
Mike and Marian Myers found out the hard way what happens when elephants encounter a GoPro video camera on their own turf. They captured the footage below while staying at Little Makalolo Camp in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, which is renowned for its huge elephant populations.
African Safaris
Elephants are awesome for many reasons. But this particular individual stands out for his or her commitment to a litter free environment. I suppose there is a chance that it might have been staged. But if it’s not, it’s pretty amazing.
African Safaris
The non-profit Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (ZCTF) has reported that 36 baby elephants, seven lions, and ten endangered sable antelopes were captured in Hwange National Park in November and will be transported to zoos in China.
News & More
When we hear news about the declining numbers—and even near-extinction—of some of the world’s largest animals, such as tigers and rhinos, we usually think about that loss in terms of the planet’s diminishing animal biodiversity and what we can do to conserve what’s left of these species.
