Conservation Stories

Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary: An Encounter with its Founder

“There was a special adventure to being a young boy in northwestern Wisconsin. There was the adventure of exploring a deep green pine forest, crunching...

Hannah Wagner

Monarch Populations Decrease

A recent survey found that monarch butterflies only occupied 7 acres of forest during the 2019-2020 winter season, a 53% decrease from the 15 acres that were...

Emily Goodheart

Nat Hab Supports Gray Whale Research in Baja

Exciting news: Your next trip to see the the Great Gray Whales of Baja will help directly fund whale research and conservation efforts in San Ignacio Lagoon!...

Hannah Wagner

What is Biodiversity and Why Does it Matter?

When I was little, I learned about dinosaurs and extinction in the same breath. Those tree trunk sized leg bones I saw at the museum belonged to animals that...

Courtney Nachlas

Reduce Your Carbon Footprint for International Polar Bear Day!

Each year, conservationists celebrate International Polar Bear Day by bringing attention to polar bears and the threats they face. The single largest...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Natural Habitat Adventures Releases First-Ever Industry Guide on Minimizing Travel Waste

The free online resource aims to empower tourism to lessen their impact on the planet via proven best practices from Nat Hab’s 2019 Zero Waste case study We...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Conservation or Preservation: Which Is Best for Now and in the Future?

In the environmental world, it’s sometimes characterized as the classic debate: should wild areas be preserved for their intrinsic qualities, or should they...

Emily Goodheart

Nat Hab Grant Helps Children Reconnect with Nature

Nat Hab is pleased to share that the FortWhyte Alive Class Act project in Winnipeg, Canada, has been selected to receive a philanthropy grant for the coming...

Emily Goodheart

Nat Hab Philanthropy: Whale Disentanglement in Mexico

As a part of our initiative to consistently raise the bar on conservation, Natural Habitat Adventures supports philanthropy efforts around the world. In 2018,...

Courtney Nachlas

Butterfly Connections – How Nat Hab’s Scholarship Winner Connected American Students to Rural Mexican Classrooms

Beth was busy washing dishes at home when she saw an unknown call come in from Boulder, Colorado. Normally, she wouldn’t answer this type of call, but she had...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Cooking Stoves: Curbing Disease and Cutting Climate Change

Around the world, nearly 3 billion people cook their meals using open fires or simple stoves fueled by biomass (animal dung, crop waste or wood), coal or...

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...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Norway Is the World’s First Nation to Ban Deforestation

Norway is the first country in the world to commit to no longer using any products that contribute to deforestation. That’s pretty remarkable, because while...

Emily Goodheart

Nat Hab’s 2020 Sustainability Goals

Nat Hab is known for continually raising the bar on conservation, and one way we do so is through our Green Team initiatives. The Green Team is a group of...

Natural Habitat Adventures

An Absence of Ethics: Wildlife-Killing Contests in Your Backyard

Wildlife-killing contests are legal in all US states, except California (2014), Vermont (2018), and parts of New Mexico (2019). These great and...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Bison Can’t Leave Yellowstone

Ask anyone who has ever visited Yellowstone National Park (YNP) what they remember about their experience, and the response will inevitably include bison. As...

Natural Habitat Adventures

DO NOT FEED THE WILDLIFE: The Desire to Connect

In the heart of Bryce Canyon National Park, I sauntered with a small group of nature lovers through a forest of Ponderosa pines. I was guiding a natural...

Court Whelan, Ph.D.

My Biggest Concern for the Future of Life on Earth

Court Whelan, Director of Sustainability and Conservation Travel at Natural Habitat Adventures, recently sent out an insightful office-wide email, and we...

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