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Our Needs to Walk and to Talk Are Satisfied by Travel

The human body was designed to walk. In fact, humans walk better than any other species on Earth. And very few things in our lives boost health, instill...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Nature’s Force in Full View at Victoria Falls

Nature is powerful. It exists by the rules that it alone sets, and it progresses on its own trajectory. Its force is far stronger than we are. The coronavirus...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Rare Moments with Monarch Butterflies in Mexico

By Nat Hab Adventure Specialist Joey Sudmeier. As we navigate through a since-COVID-world these days, I’m constantly reminded of the merits and necessity of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Worth of a Whale and the Price Tag of a Panda

In prepandemic times, those of us who cherish wildlife and wild places tried to quantify them in economic terms, hoping to convince those who didn’t care...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Greenland and the Culture of the Kayak

The first time I heard the expression “Eskimo roll,” I was standing on the deck of the M/V Sea Spirit, a small, polar-adapted, expedition ship that was my...

WWF

Travel Videography 101 with WWF Video Experts

By Kelley Ashford & Irene Magafan, WWF WWF video specialists, Kelley Ashford and Irene Magafan, have both had the fortune to travel with Natural Habitat...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Zion National Park, Where Color Lives

For me, Zion National Park is the place where color lives. That's how I connect to it. While other great national parks—such as Grand Canyon National Park at...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Elephant Poaching in the Pandemic

You probably already know the perilous position that the world’s elephants are currently negotiating. The International Union for Conservation of Nature...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Patagonia Ice and the Pandemic Stories It Will Tell

With temperatures predicted to top 90 degrees Fahrenheit all week in Wisconsin where I live, I, of course, have been thinking about ice. For the past two...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Studying the Structure of Giant Sequoias to Keep Us Safer

Yosemite National Park’s massive mountains—such as El Capitan, one of the world’s tallest monoliths—and its many waterfalls—such as Yosemite Falls, which...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Discovery Shows Mayans Valued Essential Workers, Too

One of the many things that the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us is how important essential workers are to our own well-being and to society as a whole....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Hope for Coral Reefs in Crisis

For almost 24 million years, say scientists, coral reefs have functioned relatively unchanged. That is, until the 1980s. Starting in that decade, tropical...

WWF

Top 10 Underwater Wildlife Encounters in the Galápagos

By Hallie Sacks, WWF-US The Galápagos offers incredible wildlife encounters including bumbling blue-footed boobies, playful seal colonies, and iconic giant...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Madagascar’s Dwindling Forests and Their Linked Lemurs

Imagine that you are lactose intolerant, and then you discover that all of the grocery stores in your vicinity sell only dairy products. That’s how a Duke...

WWF

Update: Wildfires in Brazil

By Karl Egloff, WWF The Pantanal has fascinated me since I first learned about it in a documentary ten years ago. It is a world of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Kenya’s Cattle Ranchers Conserve Wild Hartebeests—and Lion Predators

Hartebeests—the narrow-faced, savanna-adapted and unusual-looking African antelope that are native to more than 25 African countries—are on a downhill...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Feel Like Screaming? Iceland Wants to Help.

Shelter-in-place orders. Mask-wearing edicts. Quarantine guidelines. Social-distancing rules. Flatten-the-curve requirements. Temperature-taking regulations....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Good News for Wildlife: Rare South American Bush Dogs Spotted in Costa Rica

Stories of animals venturing into and enjoying new places have been one bright spot during the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic of 2020. But even before we had...