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Celebrating Earth Day at Natural Habitat Adventures

Natural Habitat Adventures loves celebrating the holidays! Each year, Nat Hab's office employees come together for a huge Thanksgiving potluck, an epic St....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Earth Day 2019: Share Your Favorite, Coolest Nature Video

Next Monday, April 22, 2019, the world will mark its 49th Earth Day. The first Earth Day, held on April 22, 1970, was inspired by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Traveler Story: Trains, Floatplanes and Hungry Bears on an Ultimate Alaska Wildlife Safari

"This trip is exactly what it's called. My wife and I took this Ultimate Alaska Wildlife Safari with a small group of 12 in early July, when the daylight is...

Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Amboseli Nightfall

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a family of elephants. Photographer Gary...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Owls Have Heads Designed for Hearing

The silent flight of owls is pure beauty and grace in motion. In fact, in order to lessen the noise levels of airplanes, aeronautics designers are studying...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Capturing the Character of Polar Bears

"My uncertainty before the trip was, of course, would we even see the bears, but, more crucially, would we get a true sense of them—their personality, their...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Fun with Mammals in the Galapagos

The ocean environment is a place where we, as humans, do not belong. It’s cold, full of confusing and potentially dangerous animals, and, thanks to our...

Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Did He or Didn’t He?

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a brown bear in Alaska. Photographer...

Emily Goodheart

Our Planet Book Review | A Call to Action to Save Our Wild Places

Our Planet takes us on a journey through the earth’s biological realms, highlighting its rarest creatures and hidden natural wonders. This photographic...

Natural Habitat Adventures

The Magic of Churchill

“Oh dear,” I heard our driver say over the sound of spinning tires. “Yep…uh huh…I think we’re really stuck now,” he continued. Somehow, even words you don’t...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Glaciers: Defying Physics While Moving Down Mountains

I count glaciers among my favorite things. They come in beautiful shades of blue, they’re cold and they’re ephemeral. But how can I describe something as old...

Emily Goodheart

White Bears from the Air

Each autumn, polar bears congregate along Hudson Bay in anticipation of their annual seal hunt. While waiting for the freeze-up to access these blubbery sea...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Nat Hab Creates World’s First Zero Waste Travel Adventure in Yellowstone

Natural Habitat Adventures is spearheading the world’s first zero waste trip—a travel-industry first. On the July 6-12, 2019 departure of Safari America:...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Identifying Birds by Color Patterns

Last week, here in the Midwest in mid-March, I spotted my first robin of the year. My mother used to say that seeing a robin was a sure sign that spring...

Courtney Nachlas

Scientists Aboard the Australis Encounter Mystery Orca

For Natural Habitat travelers, the S/V Australis expedition boat represents an epic voyage into extreme waters bursting with wildlife on our Sailing...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Scotland’s Stunning and Story-Filled Highlands

Sparsely populated, with several rugged mountain ranges that are speckled with forests of Scots pines, the Highlands of Scotland are the only areas in the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Cockatoos That Drum for the Love of Music

For many of us, music is so much more than just mere entertainment. We use it to wake ourselves up, to make our morning commute go quicker, to motivate us, to...

Natural Habitat Adventures

A Namibia Safari with Natural Habitat Adventures

I had the chance to go on a trip of a lifetime to Namibia with Natural Habitat Adventures. I had seen photos of the amazing Namibian landscapes and was very...