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How Catastrophic Flooding Threatens Our National Parks

In June 2022, nature let loose with five inches of rain over just three days in and around Yellowstone National Park, rapidly melting the snowpack that had...

Michelle Peters

See Alaska’s Big Five: Brown Bear, Moose, Gray Wolf, Caribou & Dall Sheep

There’s a new “Big Five” in town. Well, in Alaska, that is. Go beyond the famous quintuplet of creatures found on an African safari and head north, instead,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Monarch Butterflies: Are They Endangered or Stable?

Every summer has its own vibe. For example, you might remember your 10th as the one when you learned to swim at the beach, or your 25th as the time when you...

Joel Centano

Bird Watching in Borneo—A Biological Treasure Chest

Big, beautiful and brimming with life, Borneo is a “biological treasure chest,” says Court Whelan, Chief Sustainability Officer with Natural Habitat...

Laura Kiniry

Reasons to Travel Solo with Natural Habitat Adventures

One of my favorite travel memories was an evening in Kenya’s Masai Mara. Our group had just finished up a day of safaris when we pulled over to a spot in the...

Michelle Peters

Hooves and Horns: Ungulates of North America’s National Parks

What, you may be asking, is an ungulate? You’ve actually known them all along, but perhaps just didn’t know them by their official moniker. Among the...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Why the Galapagos Is My Happy Place

By Tracy Schuh, Junior Front-End Website Developer at Natural Habitat Adventures First, let me tell you that being immersed in nature is my happy place,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Black Rhinos and White Rhinos: Counts, COVID and Conservation

As caregivers, parents and teachers of children, we try to encourage and respect every youngster’s individuality. We tell them that they are each unique and...

Wendy Redal

The Wild Upper Douro: An International Treasure

Portugal’s Douro Valley is best known as a cradle of European winemaking. For more than 2,000 years grapes have been planted in terraced vineyards along the...

Samantha Miller

The Allen Coral Atlas is the First High-Res Map of All the World’s Coral Reefs

Across the world, there are about six thousand coral species. Some species grow in warm shallow waters near coastlines, and others thrive on the dark, cold...

Samantha Miller

Older Male Elephants Help Keep Younger Males Calm

Wildlife management is a field that continues to develop as scientists, policy leaders, government officials and local advocates collaborate to ensure that...

Jon Jared

Partnerships That Make a Difference: Supporting the People & Wildlife of the Galapagos Islands

Our partner Lindblad Expeditions’ experience in the Galapagos Islands began with bringing the very first group of international travelers to the islands in...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Spectacular Auroras of Tasmania: Legends and Lights

There may be no phenomena more magical on Earth than the aurora borealis and the aurora australis: the northern and southern lights. Although we know some of...

Megan Brief

What do Monarch Butterflies Eat? Milkweed 101

Pick a Weed, Save a Life Milkweeds contain various levels of cardiac glycoside compounds or cardenolides, which render the plants toxic to most insects,...

Cathy Brown

Panda Behavior Explained: Why Pandas Are so Charmingly Weird

There are few creatures on this planet as oddly enchanting as a big, black-and-white, roly-poly panda. Their dorky antics are just as irresistible as their...

WWF

Jaguars on the Road to Recovery in Latin America

Originally published in World Wildlife magazine, Fall 2021. Written by Kimberley Brown & illustrations by Daniele Simonelli. AN AMBITIOUS INTERNATIONAL...

Sheryl Nance-Nash

Nature as a Multivitamin: How to Get Your Daily Dose

There’s nothing quite like nature. It’s an elixir of life. Few things can change your mood almost instantly like the beauty of a sunset, a snow-capped...

Cathy Brown

Peruvian Cuisine: Wild Foods of the Amazon

There aren’t that many places left in the world where humans haven’t attempted to “modernize” the food systems. But on a trip to the Peruvian Amazon, rest...