Conservation
Savoring and Saving Summer Beaches
Summer will arrive soon, and that means that a lot of you will be thinking about a sunny beach vacation.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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Conservation
Fires and Forests: Controlled Burns and Beyond
While wildfires and controlled burns (also known as prescribed burns) are both fires, they differ significantly in their impacts, management and origins. Wildfires are unplanned and unrestrained, often caused by natural events like lightning or human error—such as unattended campfires or discarded cigarettes—and they can cause extensive damage.
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African Safaris
Privately Caring for Rhinos and Publicly Tolerating Tigers
Often, the numbers seem to look bad for African rhinos. Right now, the statistics show that these animals are rapidly declining in core, state-run reserves, such as South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Currently—much like with tigers—more than half of the continent’s remaining rhinoceroses are now on private lands.
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News & More
Could Greenland’s Past Be the Amazon’s Future?
One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon them in the early 15th century? The consensus view has long been that colder temperatures, associated with the Little Ice Age, helped make the colonies unsustainable.
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Travel Tips
How to Be a Better Environmentalist When Traveling
Like many of you, I suspect, I worry a lot about environmental issues: diminishing biodiversity, climate change, greenhouse gases and melting glaciers. Yet, about once a year, I book a flight.
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Conservation
Cooking Stoves: Curbing Disease and Cutting Climate Change
Around the world, nearly 3 billion people cook their meals using open fires or simple stoves fueled by biomass (animal dung, crop waste or wood), coal or kerosene, according to the World Health Organization.
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Travel Tales
No Time to Waste: The World’s First Zero Waste Adventure
Natural Habitat Adventures and WWF educate and inspire travelers to adopt lifelong habits to save treasured natural spaces and species. The light yellow curtain of early morning sunlight poured onto the still-dewy grasses in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley.
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Travel Tips
What You Need to Know about Carbon Offsets
When Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg made a recent visit to the U.S., she chose to sail here by an emission-free racing yacht instead of to fly. She did what she felt was fitting for her message about the urgency of the climate crisis.
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Conservation
Natural Habitat Adventures Earns Climate Champion Award
We’re pleased to announce that Natural Habitat Adventures was recently presented with a Climate Champion Award from Hemlock Printing in recognition of our ongoing commitment to reducing greenhouse gases.
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News & More
The Surprising, Four Best Things You Can Do to Combat Climate Change
Perhaps no issue defines our Anthropocene Age more than climate change. The topic has been in news headlines for more than four decades now, ever since U.S. scientist Wallace Broecker put the term global warming into the public domain in the title of a 1975 scientific paper.
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Conservation
7 Simple Steps for Green Travel
We know that Natural Habitat Adventures travelers are passionate about our planet’s wild places, because that’s where you find your inner sustenance. Well, there are plenty of things you can do as a traveler to help sustain those very places!
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Conservation
A Q-and-A on Climate Change in the Arctic with WWF’s Bryn Baker
The Arctic is often thought of as a remote and distant land – far-enough away that it seems improbable that changes there are having an effect on most of us.