Candice Gaukel Andrews

Monarch Butterflies: Are They Endangered or Stable?

Every summer has its own vibe. For example, you might remember your 10th as the one when you learned to swim at the beach, or your 25th as the time when you...

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Joel Centano

Bird Watching in Borneo—A Biological Treasure Chest

Big, beautiful and brimming with life, Borneo is a “biological treasure chest,” says Court Whelan, Chief Sustainability Officer with Natural Habitat...

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Wendy Redal

The Wild Upper Douro: An International Treasure

Portugal’s Douro Valley is best known as a cradle of European winemaking. For more than 2,000 years grapes have been planted in terraced vineyards along the...

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Jon Jared

Partnerships That Make a Difference: Supporting the People & Wildlife of the Galapagos Islands

Our partner Lindblad Expeditions’ experience in the Galapagos Islands began with bringing the very first group of international travelers to the islands in...

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Megan Brief

What do Monarch Butterflies Eat? Milkweed 101

Pick a Weed, Save a Life Milkweeds contain various levels of cardiac glycoside compounds or cardenolides, which render the plants toxic to most insects,...

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Cathy Brown

Dolphin Poop Helps Save Coral Reefs

It’s not exactly a secret that the dolphin is one of the most intelligent animals on Earth. If you’ve ever seen one gleefully interact with a dog on a boat,...

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Lavanya Sunkara

How the Inflation Reduction Act Spells Hope for the Environment

The Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed into law on August 16, 2022, includes the most ambitious climate spending package in the country’s...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Could Greenland’s Past Be the Amazon’s Future?

One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon...

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Cathy Brown

The Rewilding Movement: Lost Species Rediscovered

“Re:wild: The Search for Lost Species” sounds like the title of an action-adventure movie, and in a way, this ambitious and optimistic initiative contains all...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Studies of Extinct Ibex Could Save Today’s Tigers

The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) officially became extinct in January 2000, when a falling tree landed on Celia, the world’s last wild Pyrenean...

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Cathy Brown

Meet Nat Hab’s Summer Conservation Marketing Interns

So much of what happens here at Nat Hab goes on behind the scenes. The amount of work it takes to get our conservation message out to the world is huge, and...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Nat Hab Shines the Spotlight on Tiger Conservation in Recognition of Global Tiger Day

“Sustainable, sensitive ecotourism has played an integral role in helping to bolster wild tiger numbers, with the economic impact of visitors to India’s tiger...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

We Can Have Both: Clean Energy and Conservation Programs

Our planet’s climate is changing before our eyes. Weather events have gotten more extreme, and we’re in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. Unfortunately,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

“New” Greenland Polar Bears Found

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown, isolated population of polar bears living in Southeast Greenland that has found a unique way to survive.

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Who’s Smarter: Your Domesticated Dog or a Wild Gray Wolf?

Greyhounds have been a part of my life for more than two decades. In fact, in 2019, when my husband and I got the call inviting us to visit the local kennel...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Brown Bears and Polar Bears and Their Tangled Histories

A “time line” of nearly any animal’s existence is an almost-oxymoron, if you ask me. Time lines can make things seem as if they progressed in a linear manner....

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Jennie Lay

Petitioning for Pebble

Now is the critical moment to sign on and support Bristol Bay conservation…again The final battle is intensifying in an epic three-decade struggle between an...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

A Story of Blue Whales and a “Book” of Baleen

A pod of orcas grabbed the headlines in late March 2019. Researchers performing their annual dolphin and whale surveys off the southwestern coast of...

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