Natural Habitat Adventures

Natural Habitat Adventures to Offset Travelers’ Lives for an Entire Year

Natural Habitat Adventures is raising the bar on conservation yet again, offsetting a year’s worth of carbon output for anyone who joins one of the 2020 trips...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

For Your Gifting: My Top 10 Nature-and-Travel Authors

While some might say that the true travel genre of books includes those “that record the experiences of an author touring a place,” I find it worthwhile to...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

On Thanksgiving 2019, Counting Bounty in Butterflies

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...

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Emily Goodheart

Sustainable Solutions to Preserving the Amazon

The Amazon, home to hundreds of culturally unique Indigenous groups and one-tenth of all known species on Earth, is a vital ecosystem where the...

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Courtney Nachlas

Creating Patagonia – How an American Couple Saved the National Parks

Patagonia is known for its stunning lakes, breathtaking glaciers and adorable guanacos, but few individuals know the history behind Patagonia’s national...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Elk Use Changing Environmental Signs to Time Migrations

On a recent Natural Habitat Adventures fall trip to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, my guide talked about a common question he gets from visitors...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

See Three of the World’s Most Beautiful Forests on Natural Habitat Adventures Tours

Searching for “fall color” is a favorite pastime here in the Midwest where I live. And that’s right up my alley, as I love trees. That’s why in autumn, I...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Footsteps of Large Animals Fill Landscapes with Life

When you weigh anywhere from 1,000 to 14,000 pounds, you tend to leave huge, deep footprints wherever you walk. But more than just evidence of your passing...

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Emily Goodheart

New Rhino Discovery Itinerary on Secluded Botswana Safari

Are you wild about rhinos? Travelers who are passionate about these rare pachyderms will rejoice at Nat Hab's new Rhino Discovery Itinerary on select Secluded...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Iceland at Its Most Elemental

There's a myth that Iceland got its name because Viking settlers didn’t want people flocking to their verdant island. They wanted to make sure that their...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Grand Teton National Park Photo-Essay: from Marmots to Moose and Pikas to Pronghorn

While there are higher mountains in North America, perhaps none are more dramatic than those in the Teton Range. Grand Teton Mountain rises almost 7,000 feet...

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Courtney Nachlas

Why Exploring Borneo Changed My Life

When I’m not assisting Natural Habitat Adventures in making our company the most sustainable, epic travel company on the planet, I am also a student pursuing...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Zealand Grants Mountains, Parks and Rivers Personhood

When it comes to the world's waters, I’m more of a river person than a lake person. Rivers always seem to me to be on an urgent mission; they go places. They...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

National Parks Are Warming Faster Than the Rest of the U.S.

National parks are some of our favorite wild places, set aside for all of us to enjoy and for wildlife to find some yet remaining, far-too-scarce natural...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Summer Shade of Trees Could Save Species

We still have three weeks until the end of a long and brutally hot summer. At times, it seems the only respite we can get outside during our picnics, state...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

New "Ghost Forests” Are a Sign of Climate Change

Now, at the end of August, you may think that it’s about two months too early to talk about “ghost forests.” But, in fact, they have nothing to do with...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Greenland Whale Proves to Be the First Narwhal-Beluga Hybrid

If narwhal-beluga crosses (narlugas) are a result of climate change, will it help the two species continue to survive, or will it inadvertently doom them?

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Fat Is Good at Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park, Alaska

Every summer, from about mid-June to mid-October, the grizzly bears at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska are featured in a live-cam...

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