Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Nat Hab’s Bear Adventures Around the Globe

    May 11, 2022 · Michelle Peters

    What do a sun bear, a sloth bear and a polar bear have in common? Despite living in vastly different habitats—think lush tropical jungles versus barren Arctic tundra—they do have some similarities. Learn what those common threads are on Nat Hab bear-focused expeditions from Alaska to South Asia, Churchill to China.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Spirit Bear

    Nov 15, 2019 · Steve Selden

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a Kermode bear from Canada. Photographer Don McVee got this shot in the Kermode Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia! Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Traveler Story: Emotional Depth on a BC Nature Adventure

    May 5, 2018 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    “Just before our landing in Kitamaat, our Expedition Leader, Moira Le Patourel, gathered the guests in the wheelhouse of the Island Odyssey and asked each of us to express any particular feelings we had about our nature adventure together.

  • Videos

    Spirit Bear Videos: A Look into Lives of Peace and Harmony

    Apr 12, 2018 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    According to legend, Raven went among the black bears and promised that every 10th bear cub would be born white as a reminder of the time when the world was pure and clean and covered with snowdrifts and glaciers.

  • Travel Tales

    Majestic Spirit Bears of British Columbia

    Nov 6, 2017 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    “As our trip was coming to its conclusion, the captain of our sailing boat, the Island Odyssey, passed around a ‘talking feather’ so each guest could make comments about what they enjoyed most during their voyage and adventure.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    White, Wild Animals and Why Difference Shouldn’t Be Wrong

    May 2, 2017 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    A framed photo that hung on a wall of my grandfather’s large dining room is one of my earliest memories. Sepia-toned, it depicted a herd of deer, taken in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, near Boulder Junction. A few of the deer in that image looked different from the others; they appeared to be all white.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    4 Places To Watch Wild Bears

    Jun 17, 2015 · Wendy Redal

    The planet’s largest land predator looked disarmingly cuddly.

  • Nature Photography

    Rare and Adorable Spirit Bear Cub Spotted

    Feb 2, 2015 · Derek Ward

    A rare species of bear was recently spotted teaching its young cub how to fish, says Daily Mail. These elusive ‘Spirit bears’ can be seen in British Colombia’s beautiful Great Bear Rainforest.

  • Travel Tales

    Great Bear Rain Forest Rambles and Spirit Bear Sightings

    Nov 6, 2014 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Running 250 miles down the British Columbia, Canada, coast, the Great Bear Rain Forest is a wild expanse of western cedars, hemlocks and spruce trees. This 21 million-acre area—whose boundaries have never been precisely defined—is the largest coastal temperate rain forest on Earth.

  • Videos

    Video: Model Management in the Great Bear Rain Forest

    Sep 18, 2014 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    The Great Bear Rain Forest in British Columbia, Canada, has often been described as a “bastion of biodiversity.” Not only is it home to grizzly bears, black bears and spirit bears, it has a human history that goes back 10,000 years.