Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Sounds of Spring: Not Silent Yet

    Mar 15, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    For me, spring and Rachel Carson are inextricably linked. In her visionary, 1962 book, Silent Spring, Carson—a marine biologist and environmental trailblazer—wrote: “Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty…

  • Canada & the North

    Greenland and the Culture of the Kayak

    Sep 29, 2020 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    The first time I heard the expression “Eskimo roll,” I was standing on the deck of the M/V Sea Spirit, a small, polar-adapted, expedition ship that was my home for two weeks as I traveled around the southern coastline of Greenland, from Tasilaq on the west to Illuissat on the east.

  • Antarctica & Arctic

    Video: Using Drone Photography to Protect the Arctic

    Dec 20, 2018 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Growing up in the Arctic regions of Canada made a lasting impression on National Geographic Young Explorer Nansen Weber. When he wasn’t out guiding guests who visited his parents remote lodge on the otherwise uninhabited Somerset Island, he was out exploring—often accompanied by a handheld camera and a camera drone.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Saiga Antelope Now Victims of Climate Change

    Feb 20, 2018 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    In 2015, on the steppes of Kazakhstan, at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, more than 200,000 critically endangered saiga antelope suddenly died in a span of just three weeks.

  • Travel Tips

    10 Reasons Why Adventure Travel Is Good for You

    Jul 7, 2015 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    For the past several years, I have been writing about adventure topics for the Good Nature Travel blog, on everything from the merits of bumpy roads to tracking devices on narwhals. From my own thoughts on adventure to the latest scientific research, we’ve covered a lot of ground together.

  • Videos

    Video: Narwhal Dentist

    Dec 8, 2011 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Watch as a narwhal dentist travels to the Arctic to attempt to discover just what function a narwhal’s nine-foot tooth may play.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Tracking Devices on Narwhals and Other Wildlife Wear

    Dec 6, 2011 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    After missing for more than eight years, Petunia, an American Staffordshire terrier, was found. She had disappeared from her home in Virginia sometime around Thanksgiving 2003. Last weekend, she was located in an animal shelter in California, more than 3,000 miles away. How do we know the dog is truly Petunia?

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Churchill: Home of the Pizzly?

    Jan 25, 2011 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    As the Arctic continues to warm, it comes as no surprise that cold-adapted species, such as polar bears, are moving north in an effort to survive, while those that favor more moderate temperatures are expanding into regions that have now become hospitable habitats for them.