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Who’s Smarter: Your Domesticated Dog or a Wild Gray Wolf?

Greyhounds have been a part of my life for more than two decades. In fact, in 2019, when my husband and I got the call inviting us to visit the local kennel...

Madison Mitchell

The Origins of Chocolate and the Case for Sustainability

There’s nothing like biting into or sipping on the delicious treat that many of us know and love: chocolate. But how well do we know chocolate? The origins...

Jon Jared

Celebrate Yellowstone’s 150th Anniversary This Summer

Yellowstone National Park’s 150th anniversary celebrates the birth of the world’s first national park, setting the stage for others of its kind around the globe.

Laura Kiniry

Astounding Plants that Look Like Animals

When I was a kid, my mom took our family to see Disney’s Pete’s Dragon, a musical fantasy film that featured a large green animated dragon named Elliott who...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Brown Bears and Polar Bears and Their Tangled Histories

A “time line” of nearly any animal’s existence is an almost-oxymoron, if you ask me. Time lines can make things seem as if they progressed in a linear manner....

Natural Habitat Adventures

Murren, Switzerland: A Living Postcard

By Nat Hab Expedition Leader Eddy Savage Murren, Switzerland, is one of the hidden gems on our Wild Switzerland expedition. This tiny hamlet is tucked high...

Samantha Miller

Magical Encounters in New Zealand’s Lake Moeraki: Kea, Penguins, Glowworms and More

Visit Lake Moeraki, and witness the movements of some of the world’s rarest species. This is a destination for nature lovers, active travelers and anyone...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Natural Habitat Adventures Highlights Intensive New Photo Pro Expeditions

These in-depth adventures are designed for serious photographers in search of iconic wildlife and nature shots in some of the world’s most photogenic places....

WWF

3 Things You Can Do To Help Your Local Pollinators

Everyone knows the honey bee, but did you know that there are over 20,000 different species of bee in the world and that there are some 4,000 species that...

Jennie Lay

Petitioning for Pebble

Now is the critical moment to sign on and support Bristol Bay conservation…again The final battle is intensifying in an epic three-decade struggle between an...

Megan Brief

World Rainforest Day

The Time is Now Established in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership, World Rainforest Day recognizes forests as one of the most powerful and cost-effective climate...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

A Story of Blue Whales and a “Book” of Baleen

A pod of orcas grabbed the headlines in late March 2019. Researchers performing their annual dolphin and whale surveys off the southwestern coast of...

Madison Mitchell

The Rise of the Tiger

Big Cats in the Wild There are two recognized subspecies of tigers: the continental (Panthera tigris tigris) and the Sunda (Panthera tigris sondaica). Since...

Samantha Miller

A Tiger Safari in India: A Photographer’s Dream

It was the Vice President of the National Geographic Society who said, “I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Where It Counts: Enumerating Elephants and Listing Lions

To decide whether an animal population is threatened or even on the brink of extinction, you need to know, at least approximately, how many individuals are...

Michelle Peters

5 National Parks to Visit During Wildflower Season

Does anything shout springtime more than a field of cheerful, colorful wildflowers? While we often give the natural scenery and the wildlife top billing when...

Cathy Brown

Strange and Wonderful Wildlife of Borneo

The rain forest of Borneo is home to unique wildlife, like the orangutan, proboscis monkey, sun bear, hornbill, clouded leopard, pygmy elephant and ninja slug.

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Fearless Animals Will Fare Better in the Face of Climate Change

Without a doubt, we humans are altering the natural environment. Because of our activities, we are now experiencing melting glaciers; rising sea levels;...