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Your Vote Needed! Nat Hab’s ‘Exploring the Okavango | A Botswana Traveler Story’ Video a Finalist in Adventure Film Contest
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Nature Is Good for Your Brain—and Body Image
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Parks, People, a Pandemic and Problem-Solving
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Taking on the Tolt on an Icelandic Horse
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Your Africa Safari Photographs Could Help Save Wildlife
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Five Ways that Travel Makes You More Empathetic
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Natural Environment—and the People Who Depend on It
Even if you don’t know much about the science regarding COVID-19, you probably can’t escape the fact that the disease has caused major changes in your...
The Most Beautiful Countries in the World Have Two Problems
Almost a year ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic raced around the world, I thought of writing to you about the countries that seem to perpetually be on annual...
Snow Leopards and Conservation Travel in Ladakh, India
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Video: Grand Teton National Park Getaway
Let’s just go to Grand Teton National Park. I mean it. After so many weeks of economic hardships, pandemic worries and political chaos, I need to shut down...
See the Natural Wonders of the World in 2021
It’s time to say farewell to 2020; and for many of us, we’re happy to do it—perhaps more so than for any other year we’ve ever experienced. For those smitten...
The Worth of a Whale and the Price Tag of a Panda
In prepandemic times, those of us who cherish wildlife and wild places tried to quantify them in economic terms, hoping to convince those who didn’t care...
Elephant Poaching in the Pandemic
You probably already know the perilous position that the world’s elephants are currently negotiating. The International Union for Conservation of Nature...