Nature & Wildlife
While I have never considered insects my favorite category of fauna, I have to admit that some “fun facts” about them intrigue me. For example, ants can lift and carry more than 50 times their own weight. While gathering food, a bee may fly up to 60 miles in one day.
Conservation
Things are vanishing. Here’s an example: humanity has already pushed 60% of Earth’s land outside its safe biosphere zone, with 38% in a high-risk state. Centuries of data confirm how human demands on biomass—from energy production to farming—have destabilized ecosystems worldwide. Asia, Europe and North America show the deepest disruptions, reflecting centuries of land-use change.
African Safaris
A Botswana safari during the green season ticks all the right boxes: optimal wildlife viewing, stays in secluded and luxurious safari camps and opportunities to photograph Southern Africa at its most lush.
News & More
While in recent years environmental laws in the United States have faced some of their most severe challenges and rollbacks, it’s encouraging to hear that Europe is now successfully passing several groundbreaking rules to restore nature.
Nature & Wildlife
I’ve always been drawn to what we call “earth colors”—soft browns, olive greens, muted oranges, dusty pinks and corn-husk yellows. Colors have been on my mind because I recently moved to the Pacific Northwest into an older home that needs paint and some new carpeting.
Nature & Wildlife
Animals see the world through all kinds of different eyes: from simple ones that can only tell the difference between dark and light, to complex eyes that can see colors and perceive depth. It was once thought that animals, including cats and dogs, could only see in black and white.
Latin America
Each year around El Día de los Muertos—celebrated November 1 and 2—the sky over the Mexican mountain village of Anguangeo becomes a flurry of orange. But it’s no swirl of bright autumn leaves.
Latin America
Pick a Weed, Save a Life Milkweeds contain various levels of cardiac glycoside compounds or cardenolides, which render the plants toxic to most insects, animals and humans. Despite their seemingly sinister sap, milkweeds breathe life to pollinators and people alike.
Conservation
Walking through the Mexican Highlands, you can almost hear a little flutter. Footsteps slowly approach the noise as the forest in the distance comes into view. As you get closer, you realize the trees are shimmering orange and black. Suddenly, you find yourself standing under a canopy of life, filled with millions of monarch butterflies.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a perched monarch. Photographer Steven Escamilla captured the moment this butterfly sat upon a butterfly bush. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Latin America
Nothing could have prepared me for today. ‘I was blind, and now I can see,’ I think I’ve heard that before, seems appropriate now.
Nature & Wildlife
The items you stuff into your daypack for an exciting adventure can be critical. I just returned from Belize where I traveled on our Ultimate Belize Nature Safari, and I’m very thankful for everything I had in my daypack.
