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Tag: New Zealand
5 Prehistoric Animals You Can Meet on Your Next Adventure
When you hear the term ‘prehistoric animal,’ you likely think of something that is no more. Dinosaurs. Woolly mammoths. Saber-toothed tigers. But there are...
The Sapphire Lakes of New Zealand’s South Island
In New Zealand, Māori legends that tell the tales of how the landscape came to be abound. One such story describes a giant supernatural creature whose body...
Go With the Glow: Bioluminescent Animals and Where to Find Them
Bioluminescence is a natural phenomenon that highlights the brilliance of the natural world—literally! Glowworms light up, fireflies flash and plankton...
Penguins and Their Original Homelands
Part of the reason that I’m so enthralled with Antarctica is because it’s one of the rare places on Earth that has never had an Indigenous population; in...
Magical Encounters in New Zealand’s Lake Moeraki: Kea, Penguins, Glowworms and More
Visit Lake Moeraki, and witness the movements of some of the world’s rarest species. This is a destination for nature lovers, active travelers and anyone...
Top 5 Places in the World to See Penguins
Galapagos On the western side of Isabela Island, the largest of the Galápagos Islands, Galápagos penguins can be spotted on Nat Hab’s Classic Galapagos...
Where in the World You Can See Penguins
They slide on their bellies across the snow, congregate on icebergs and seem to fly through freezing water in search of fish. That’s how most people picture...
In the Land of Glowing Skies: Kiwi Conservation in New Zealand
Long before the world began to refer to those from New Zealand as “kiwis”, the indigenous Maori held the kiwi bird in high regard. They called this peculiar...
How to Spend a Dozen Days on New Zealand’s South Island
Centuries ago, New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people established traditional pathways across the Southern Alps, a mountain range that runs north-to-south...
22 Nat Hab Travel Destinations Named Top Trips of 2022
For two years, many of us have dreamed up lists of far-away places, and as travel restrictions and border closures continued, these plans seemed increasingly...
Finding New Life in a Pandemic. I Call That "Hope."
We’re living in an age of great biodiversity loss. And we’re trying to make our way through a worldwide pandemic on top of it. Some days, it seems like life...
Better Together: Native Knowledge and Western Science
Throughout the United States, Native Americans own and/or manage nearly 95 million acres of deserts and forests, grasslands and mountains—much of it in...
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...
9 Nat Hab destinations from NYT’s 52 places to visit in 2020
Every year, the New York Times names 52 places as top destinations to visit. This year, nine Nat Hab destinations made the list. Some destinations are making...
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...
New Zealand: Immerse Yourself in the Scenic Wonders of the South Island
Imagine a land where Hawaii, Alaska and Colorado have collided in an unexpected mosaic. Glaciers wind down into coastal rain forest filled with giant tree...
Glaciers: Defying Physics While Moving Down Mountains
I count glaciers among my favorite things. They come in beautiful shades of blue, they’re cold and they’re ephemeral. But how can I describe something as old...