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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Taking a Look Back
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a South African leopard. Photographer Vicky Marella was visiting Kruger National Park
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: A Stripe of Zebras
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a dazzle of zebras. Photographer Peter Ibbotson was photographing in the Welgevonden Game Reserve
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Traveler Stories: South Africa & Botswana Safari
Planning an African photo safari can be complicated—choosing which countries to visit, finding the best wildlife parks and nature reserves in each destination, and getting recommendations on how to connect these wildlife preserves within
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Humpback Whales Are Gathering in Huge Numbers. Why?
Whales are complex creatures with very large brains. We are only just beginning to understand small portions of their highly developed cultures. Among the many things we don’t know about them is why they
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Losing Wildlife Hurts Biodiversity—and Our Bottom Lines
Wildlife tourism—tourism specifically based on encounters with undomesticated animals—accounts for 20 to 40 percent of the total $1 trillion annual, global tourism industry. This comes from a paper published in late 2015 in the
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: High Up on a Limb
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a leopard out of Mala Mala in South Africa. Photographer Janet Sitas
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Devouring Leopard
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a photo from a South African game drive. Photographer Sahasrangshu Choudhury captured the moment when
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Attitudes Toward Wildlife: the Right Kind of Caring?
American attitudes toward wild animals are growing more positive, according to a new study published just last month in the international journal Biological Conservation. Between 1978 and 2014, our thinking about eight historically stigmatized
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