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Wine Tourism and Wildlife Conservation: An Enchanting Journey through Portugal’s Winemaking Regions

Ancient Traditions, Endangered Species, and Sustainable Development: Travel for Wine and Wildlife Lovers A visit to Portugal's wine regions, renowned for...

Lavanya Sunkara

Eight Enlightening Indigenous Activities in Churchill and Winnipeg

The small town of Churchill, Manitoba, is one of the most popular destinations for polar bear viewing. Not only is it the site of the world's largest...

Laura Kiniry

The Truth About Plastic Pollution and How We Can Stop It

In February 2017, residents on the Norwegian island of Sotra found a Cuvier’s beaked whale stranded on a beach in southwestern Norway. It wasn’t the first...

Natural Habitat Adventures

New Trip! Delve Deep Into Wild Peru

Peru holds so much diversity for the nature explorer who is also intrigued by its rich cultural history...and we've got three different adventures to entice...

Rebecca Self

Wine, Cork and Wildlife Conservation: A Perfect Trio in Portugal

For over two decades, WWF has been telling wine producers to put a cork in it, extolling the virtues of cork stoppers over cheaper alternatives. The reasons...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Wildfires Are Increasing CO2 Emissions, and Animals Are Adapting

Scenes of devastation from wildfires have almost become a staple of summer in the past decade. In addition to the physical destruction they cause, wildfires...

Joel Centano

Every Day Is International Dog Day at Nat Hab

Czech-born author Milan Kundera said it best: "Dogs are our link to paradise." No one understands this better than Natural Habitat Adventures, which is proud...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Defining—and Redefining—the Anthropocene

Quiet, small-but-deep Crawford Lake in Canada’s Niagara Escarpment in Ontario may soon become the symbolic starting point for a radical new chapter in Earth’s...

Marta Regn

Manatees & Mermaids: A History of Animal Myths

Considering 80% of the world’s oceans remain unknown, it’s almost impossible to imagine the constant wonders early explorers experienced. As they entered...

Cathy Brown

Land of the Thunder Dragon: Discover the Kingdom of Bhutan

Because it closed itself off to the rest of the world for so many centuries, Bhutan is still a country shrouded in mystery and legend. Its very first visitors...

Emily Goodheart

Nat Hab Philanthropy Supports Community Garden & Green Future for Greenland’s Youth

Conservation travel has transformative power. It benefits communities, safeguards wildlife and preserves cultural heritage. In addition to our conservation...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Hearing the Sound of Silence

Silence. It can be “deafening” when your ideas are met with disapproval, or when people expect you to act or speak—and you don’t. It can be “golden” when it’s...

Lavanya Sunkara

3 Ways to Celebrate International Wolf Day

Like sharks, wolves have an unfair reputation for being villains. Children grow up reading fairy tales about the “big bad wolf.” But in reality, these animals...

Lavanya Sunkara

Seven Lizards to Love on World Lizard Day (Plus Where to See Them in the Wild)

Scaly and colorful, many with amazing abilities (think: sleeping with their eyes open or growing back their tails), lizards are among the most fascinating...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Natural Habitat Adventures Among the First to Deploy A Solar-Powered Electric Safari Vehicle in Botswana

Natural Habitat Adventures, a leader in responsible nature-based adventure travel, in partnership with World Wildlife Fund, recently deployed one of the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Among the World’s Animals, We’re Not That Exceptional

Growing up, you probably learned some version of the following: in the animal kingdom, humans are exceptional and unique. Among the one-of-a-kind qualities...

WWF

10 Fast Facts About Lions for World Lion Day

The lion has long been a symbol of strength, power and ferocity. Seeing this majestic species up close is a spine-tingling highlight of any African safari. To...

Laura Kiniry

Five Endangered Keystone Species Making Comebacks

In 2019, an independent researcher caught sight of a tiny creature on a trail camera in Northern California’s Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve. Scientists were...