Candice Gaukel Andrews

Cockatoos That Drum for the Love of Music

For many of us, music is so much more than just mere entertainment. We use it to wake ourselves up, to make our morning commute go quicker, to motivate us, to...

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Hannah Wagner

Conservation-Minded Travel and 9 Tips to Get You Started

What unites travelers is our love of place. Most travelers want to help support the destinations they visit, but don’t know where to start.   As tourism...

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Emily Goodheart

Fernandina Giant Tortoise Found After 113 Years of ‘Extinction’

More great news for the Galapagos! A species of giant tortoise, believed to have been extinct for the past 113 years, has been found on the island of...

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Emily Goodheart

Snow Leopards and Sacred Mountains: Buddhist Monks Lead the Way in Conservation

In Search of the Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen The now across the river glows, and the rocks and peaks, the serpentine black stream, and snows, sky, stars,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Grasslands: A Lot More Than Just Flyover Country

Across the world, they go by many names: downs, prairies, pampas, rangelands, steppes, savannas or velds. But what all of these landscapes have in common is...

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Emily Goodheart

Great News for the Galapagos: Land Iguana Brought Back from Extinction on Santiago

The new year rang in a landmark win for conservation in the Galapagos as land iguanas were reintroduced to Santiago Island for the first time in 184 years....

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WWF

Conservation Comes Full Circle

About 20 years ago at the start of my career, I jumped on an opportunity to work with WWF in Peru, where I found myself traveling often to the far reaches of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Year-Round Land of Evergreens: the Taiga

It’s mid-January, the time some people call the “doldrums,” a period of feeling low energy and a lack of motivation after the Christmas and New Year season of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

More than Travel Guides, Maps Tell Nature’s Stories

Maps are far more than sets of instructions on how to get from Point A to Point B. They tell stories. And whether they’re digital or paper maps, the tales...

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Green New Year’s Resolutions for 2019 from Nat Hab’s Green Team

Our whole team here at Natural Habitat Adventures is deeply committed to sustainability. About a third of the employees at our Colorado headquarters are...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Universe Wishes You “A Merry Little Christmas”

On this Christmas morning, I hope you are happy, healthy and spending time with family and friends. During this holiday season, however, it’s the “happy” part...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Using Drone Photography to Protect the Arctic

Growing up in the Arctic regions of Canada made a lasting impression on National Geographic Young Explorer Nansen Weber. When he wasn’t out guiding guests who...

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WWF

Celebrate 2018 Conservation Wins in these Five Places

2019 is on the horizon, and with the new year comes new challenges facing the planet. But with 2018 ending, we can look back on the events of the year and...

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WWF

High Finance

Green is good, and Bhutan is planning to stay that way—forever. The carbon-neutral kingdom’s constitution already mandates 60-percent   forest cover on its...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Losing Urban Trees—and the Wildlife that Depends on Them

We need to learn to tolerate a bit of messiness when it comes to our urban neighborhoods and landscapes. And I’m not talking about litter on our sidewalks,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Travelers, Tread Lightly—the Palau Giant’s Message

If you love to travel, you’ve probably collected a lot of stamps in several, worn-out passports. The one you received from the island nation of Palau,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Literally “Talking Turkey” on This Thanksgiving

When someone says he or she wants to “talk turkey” with you, it usually means that you’re in for a frank, straightforward and serious discussion. But if...

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WWF

Homeland Security for Jaguars

A new era of cross-border cooperation is primed to save Earth’s largest tropical wetland, home to the world’s densest concentration of jaguars. Assuming...

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