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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 they spin range from
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Immerse Yourself in Antarctica
Walk the shoreline amid a giant colony of penguins. Weave in and out of magnificent icebergs on a Zodiac excursion. Kayak along a cliffside rookery to look at blue-eyed shags. Capture amazing photographs of
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Video: Emotional Overload on Encountering a Coastal Wolf
Almost every single one of you has had that “nature moment”; the instant when an animal encounter or a sighting of a natural landscape or phenomenon takes your breath away. The power of those brief
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Video: Discovering the Unseen Natural World
Big, charismatic fauna and the large terrains and environments they live in—such as polar bears in the Arctic and whales in the world’s oceans—are always captivating. However, we sometimes forget that there are other
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10 Reasons Why Adventure Travel Is Good for You
For the past several years, I have been writing about adventure topics for the Good Nature Travel blog, on everything from the merits of bumpy roads to tracking devices on narwhals. From my own
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Video: Slow-Motion Capture of a Running Cheetah
Cheetahs are the fastest runners on the planet: they can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in only three seconds. And thanks to their spines that are proportionally the longest and most flexible in
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Video of the Week: Gibbon Plays with Young Tigers
A smile for your weekend! Had to share this remarkable capture of a gleeful gibbon monkey up to a little mischief with a couple of juvenile tigers. The clip comes, courtesy of National Geographic from their series
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Rare Video Footage of Wild Pandas
Giant pandas are among the world’s most uncommon and elusive animals. China’s State Forestry Administration estimates that there are only about 1,600 of them remaining in the wild, down from 2,500 in the 1970s.
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