Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Biodiversity and Building Better Cities

    Nov 4, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    I like to think of biodiversity as a symphony orchestra, where each note, each instrument—every single part—is needed to make the whole. In the concert called “biodiversity,” then, every species, from microscopic life to towering trees and vast oceans, plays a vital role.

  • Conservation

    AI and VR for Nature’s Future

    Aug 5, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Virtual reality (VR)—a technology that simulates a three-dimensional (3D) environment, allowing users to interact with a computer-generated world as if they were physically present—can create dynamic, immersive and personalized experiences.

  • Conservation

    AI Advances and Robotic Strides in Conservation

    May 21, 2024 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    The grace of a running gazelle, the majesty of a migrating herd of wildebeests, the elegance of an outstretched wing in flight or the grand glissades of massive glaciers. These are nature’s lissome movements. There’s nothing else like them.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    The Highs of Hiking through a Burned Forest

    May 24, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Our relationship with forest fires is complicated. Beginning in 1947, one of the world’s most recognizable characters and one of our nation’s most beloved spokespeople, Smokey Bear, told us that “only you can prevent forest fires.” (That slogan was changed to “Only you can prevent wildfires” in 2001.)