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Watch and Listen to Beluga Whales

By Nat Hab traveler Jim Fuller and Expedition Leader Moira le Patourel. A summertime journey to Churchill reveals another world beyond the tundra—the watery...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Traveler Story: Among the Great Whales

"Trip of a lifetime, it's not every day you get to pet a gray whale, or two. We saw four blue whales, hundreds of dolphins and dozens of humpback whales. The...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Quickly Losing Protections: Our Birds, Lands and Oceans

One hundred and eleven years ago, the American Antiquities Act of 1906 was passed. It authorizes the president to designate federally managed lands as...

WWF

Five Whale Questions with WWF’s Leigh Henry

WWF Senior Policy Officer in Species Conservation, Leigh Henry, leads policy efforts related to wildlife conservation. Since joining the WWF family in 2001,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Warming Oceans Due to Climate Change Causing Seabird Deaths

Recently, in late 2016, hundreds of tufted puffins washed up dead on shores along the Bering Sea in Alaska. Earlier last year, tens of thousands of dead...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change Could Expose a Hazardous U.S. Military Base in Greenland

In the past few decades, rapid climate change has certainly revealed a lot about how our planet is being reshaped and modified. Global warming has been linked...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

The Great Gray Whale in Me

Whenever I write about a specific nature or travel topic, I try to think about the extent to which my experience with it has shaped my own life. In the case...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

A New Movement: Personhood for All Animals

Black Lives Matter. Blue Lives Matter. Veterans Matter. You could probably name a dozen other organizations that work to convince us that all human lives have...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: British Columbia Humpbacks May Soon Lose Ocean Quiet

In some of the last quiet, pristine waters on the British Columbia Coast, humpback whales are making a comeback. In the mid 1960s, when Canada stopped whaling...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Finding the Sound of Silence in Glacier Bay National Park

The quietest place you may ever experience is next to a little pond off the Forest Trail in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. Hiking there just a couple of...

Emily Deemer

A Whale of a Journey: Kayaking Baja’s Sea of Cortez

During the spring of 1995, I joined a Natural Habitat Adventures kayaking trip in search of Pacific gray whales in Baja’s Sea of Cortez. We zigzagged from one...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Listen, and You Might Actually Hear Climate Change

The image of a polar bear stranded on an ice floe. Herds of thousands of walruses hauled out on land, deprived of their sunning platforms of choice: sea ice....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Eco-Avengers: Just Monkeywrenching or Ecoterrorism?

When timber framer Will Elwell heard that a natural gas pipeline was going to run through his town of Ashfield, Massachusetts, he decided to take action by...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Dogs May Be Our Best Conservation Aids

Radio collars, GPS tracking devices and remote-controlled drones—when it comes to monitoring wildlife, it’s easy to get caught up in high-tech devices. It...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Is Ringling Brothers Really “Retiring” Its Elephants?

Circus elephants in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey shows got good news last week when it was announced on January 11, 2016, that they would be retired...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Happy Holidays 2015: Whales under the Northern Lights

As we reflect back on 2015, we have to admit it’s been a tough year for the world. Biodiversity is being lost, droughts continue and wars go on. But there is...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Wildlife Roundup – Top 5 North American Animals You Can Still See in the Wild

1. Grandpa what big horns you have I’ll never forget the first time I came across a giant moose – I was maybe 10 or 11, canoeing with my dad in the shallows...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Is There a New State Trend to Ban Citizen Science?

Citizen science has become an important tool for scientific research. Now, as funds for federal agencies and state natural resources departments around the...