Africa Stories

Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater: The Eighth Wonder of the Natural World

A conservation story told by Gary Balfour and David Bygott Twenty million years ago, a mountain that never had a chance to be named led to the creation of one...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

How Should Rhinos Be Relocated? Upside Down.

At times, wildlife conservationists do things that might look a bit strange or even questionable to the rest of us. And seeing a rhino tied by its legs and...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Your Africa Safari Photographs Could Help Save Wildlife

I have never been fortunate enough to go on an Africa safari, but I never tire of reading about the experiences of others who have visited the continent, such...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

African Wild Dogs and the Necessity of Wildlife Corridors

Larger than Austria and Germany combined and nearly twice as big as the United Kingdom, the enormous KAZA (Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area)...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Giraffe-African Savanna Relationship: It’s Complicated

Much like the beneficial but complicated effects that the wolves of Yellowstone National Park exert upon their environment, recent research is beginning to...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Novel Look at South Africa

I have never been to Africa. Yet, I like to imagine being there: I picture myself on a safari in Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa or Tanzania. I dream...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Botswana’s Changing Lands: Elephants Not to Blame

The African nation of Botswana is believed to have the world’s largest population of wild elephants. While the exact number is hard to pinpoint, estimates are...

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...

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

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...

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...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Africa Through the Eyes of My Children

Over my 20 years at Nat Hab, I’ve had the great luxury of traveling to a wide variety of our nature destinations around the world. Travel is my greatest...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Comfort Food for Quarantine—7 Soup & Stew Recipes from Our Botswana Safaris

On any Nat Hab trip, it's the charismatic wildlife and breathtaking vistas that take center stage, but there's something else our travelers frequently come...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Elephants and Lions Align Against Rhinos

The term Africa’s Big Five means something quite different today than it did when it was coined in the late 1800s during the continent’s colonial period....

WWF

Southern Africa Safari: An Intimate View of Predator and Prey

Most people are thrilled to go on a safari in Africa, knowing they will see the iconic wildlife they have only seen in images or in zoos all their lives....

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...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The New Mini Frogs of Madagascar

More than 350 types of frogs live in Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. The nation stretches across 226,917...

Emily Goodheart

Mountain Gorilla Numbers on the Rise

Good news for mountain gorillas—these great apes are growing in numbers, thanks in dual part to incredible conservation efforts on behalf of our partner World...

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