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Kenya or Tanzania: Which to Choose?

By Elissa Poma, Director of Internal Communications, WWF Natural Habitat Adventures and WWF offer migration-oriented tours to both Tanzania and Kenya. While...

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Get to Know a Guide: Renzo Zeppilli

Renzo Zeppilli is, admittedly, a lot like the birds he has studied for dozens of years: He travels extensively and wakes up every morning singing. Observing...

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Running for wildlife across Kenya

In their quest to run across nearly 250 miles in two weeks across southern Kenya to raise awareness for wildlife conservation, two young women found a respite...

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Five Questions about Wildlife Trafficking with WWF’s Crawford Allan

Dozens of customs officials bust through the door of a remote and quaint-looking farmhouse. The first thing Crawford Allan sees when he enters following the...

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What's in my daypack: Amazon edition

I recently traveled through the Peruvian Amazon on our Great Amazon Voyage, and I was grateful for every single item I had stashed in my daypack. As stuffed...

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One Amazonian Protects the Future of Nature

Originally posted on the WWF Travel Blog By Elissa Leibowitz Poma / WWF Tulio Ahuanari Sima remembers the size of the paiche his fishermen grandfather used to...

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A Suitcase Full of Trouble

World Wildlife Fund’s podcast series, “Wild Things,” normally take listeners to rain forests, mountaintops and other far-flung field sites. But in the most...

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Palau’s Jellyfish Lake: ‘Like Swimming in a Lava Lamp’

How many travel experiences can honestly, truly be defined as “surreal?” Few come close to the extraordinary experience of slipping into a quiet, dark lake...

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Behind the Lens: Preparing to Take Photos on a Wildlife Tour

This is the first in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. One of the biggest shames that professional photographer Steven Morello sees...

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Behind the Lens: Shooting Underwater

The third in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Thomas & Natalya Baechtold/Raw Perspectives Of the wide-ranging...

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Behind the Lens: Preparing to Take Photos on a Wildlife Tour

The second in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Martin Harvey. The subjects of Martin Harvey’s photography are as...