African Safaris
It was our second day out driving in our open-air jeep in Botswana’s Kalahari Game Reserve when the raindrops started to fall. As we’d headed out that afternoon, the sky above us looked bright and sunny, but in the distance we could see dark clouds forming and the occasional lightning bolt.
African Safaris
Driving across the plains of the Serengeti, every sense becomes sharpened: eyes alert as you scan the horizon, inhaling the mingling scents of lemon bush and wild mint, you listen to the echoes of animals calling in the distance, just as Africa has called to you.
Nature & Wildlife
Some tiny birds on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a dramatic evolutionary transformation. Four isolated populations of British wrens have grown astonishingly large. At the other end of the scale, however, leopards in South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region have become much smaller than most African leopards.
African Safaris
Botswana is one of five adjacent countries within whose borders lies the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, also known as KAZA, the world’s largest transboundary conservation area. While KAZA is essential as the stronghold of half of Africa’s elephants, it is also home to significant percentages of the continent’s carnivores, including lions, leopards, cheetahs and wild dogs.
African Safaris
At Natural Habitat Adventures, conservation isn’t just a mission statement—it’s the guiding principle behind every journey we design. On our Secluded South Africa safari, guests explore protected national parks and private reserves where wildlife roams freely and tourism supports vital conservation initiatives aimed at protecting these landscapes for generations to come.
African Safaris
The grasslands of Kenya’s Maasai Mara sweep you off your feet with surreal scenery and celebrated wildlife. During the Great Migration, millions of wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras and other ungulates move through the landscape, feeding on the grasses and, in turn, providing food for hungry carnivores.
Nature & Wildlife
Jaguar vs. Leopard: How to Tell These Spotted Big Cats Apart in the Wild On Nat Hab’s Brazil Pantanal adventure, guests often enjoy close, extended encounters with wild jaguars—one of the few places on Earth where this apex predator can be reliably observed.
African Safaris
The Lion King left many viewers longing to visit the plains of Africa. The family-friendly film conjures up images of elephants browsing on acacia trees and amber-eyed predators prowling among golden grasses as an enormous red sun sinks below the horizon.
Conservation
In addition to being beautiful, African leopards are adaptable, elusive and versatile animals. Now, we can add genetically diverse to that list.
Nature & Wildlife
From spots on leopards to stripes on zebras to hexagons on boxfish, nature creates an almost infinite array of dazzling patterns and stunning colors. But a full explanation for how these designs form has remained elusive—until now.
African Safaris
Staggering natural wonders—such as Victoria Falls, considered to be the world’s biggest curtain of falling water (not because of a singular dimension, such as height or width, but because of all dimensions taken into account, including flow rate)—and a massive network of remote national parks where you can encounter most of Africa’s iconic wildlife…
African Safaris
The quintessential “big cat,” the leopard is the most generalized of the Pantherines. The four others—lion, tiger, jaguar and snow leopard—are more specialized and less adaptable. Yet all share an ancestral link to a pre-historic feline that looked and behaved much like the modern leopard.
