African Safaris
Video: Slow-Motion Capture of a Running Cheetah
Cheetahs are the fastest runners on the planet. They can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in just three seconds.
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Nature & Wildlife
10 Destinations to Travel to in 2020 with Nat Hab
As we welcome in the new year, notable travel media outlets such as Condé Nast Traveler, National Geographic and Travel + Leisure are singing the praises of their bucket-list destinations for 2020.
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Travel Tales
Making Travelers: View-Masters, Slideshows and Mailed Boxes
When I was a kid, my mother signed me up for a monthly children’s travel club sponsored by the National Geographic Society. As a member of the club, every 30 days I received a small box in the mail.
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Conservation
More than Travel Guides, Maps Tell Nature’s Stories
Maps are far more than sets of instructions on how to get from Point A to Point B. They tell stories. And whether they’re digital or paper maps, the tales they spin range from absurd to fun on one end of the spectrum and from informative to sobering and shocking on the other.
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Nature & Wildlife
“Bird Years” and the Year of the Bird, 2018
Wildlife science has many measurements; for example, “carrying capacity,” “depredations” or “translocations.” But there’s a new scale I recently came across: “bird years lost.” A bird year is a quantity devised by ornithologist Daniel Cristol at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Antarctica & Arctic
Immerse Yourself in Antarctica
Walk the shoreline amid a giant colony of penguins. Weave in and out of magnificent icebergs on a Zodiac excursion. Kayak along a cliffside rookery to look at blue-eyed shags. Capture amazing photographs of whales, seals and flocks of seabirds. These immersive nature experiences can be yours on your journey to Antarctica: The White Continent.
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Videos
Video: Emotional Overload on Encountering a Coastal Wolf
Almost every single one of you has had that “nature moment”; the instant when an animal encounter or a sighting of a natural landscape or phenomenon takes your breath away. The power of those brief minutes is so strong that you remember them for the rest of your life.
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Videos
Video: Discovering the Unseen Natural World
Big, charismatic fauna and the large terrains and environments they live in—such as polar bears in the Arctic and whales in the world’s oceans—are always captivating.
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Travel Tips
10 Reasons Why Adventure Travel Is Good for You
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.
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Nature & Wildlife
Video of the Week: Gibbon Plays with Young Tigers
A smile for your weekend! Had to share this remarkable capture of a gleeful gibbon monkey up to a little mischief with a couple of juvenile tigers. The clip comes, courtesy of National Geographic from their series Untamed Asia: Chronicles of the Lost Jungle.
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Videos
Rare Video Footage of Wild Pandas
Giant pandas are among the world’s most uncommon and elusive animals. China’s State Forestry Administration estimates that there are only about 1,600 of them remaining in the wild, down from 2,500 in the 1970s. They inhabit the mountainous regions of China’s Sichuan (1,200 pandas), Shaanxi (300 pandas) and Gansu (100 pandas) Provinces.
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Videos
Changing Minds with “Chasing Ice”
Not since Al Gore’s 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth has such a powerful documentary feature film come out about the Earth’s changing climate.