Conservation Stories

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...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Natural Habitat Adventures to Offset Travelers’ Lives for an Entire Year

Natural Habitat Adventures is raising the bar on conservation yet again, offsetting a year’s worth of carbon output for anyone who joins one of the 2020 trips...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Keeping Wolves at the Door: The Economic Benefits (and Struggles) of Wolves in Yellowstone

As the December solstice peaks and wanes, winter burrows itself deeper into the heart of Yellowstone. Geographically, Yellowstone National Park (YNP) is a...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

For Your Gifting: My Top 10 Nature-and-Travel Authors

While some might say that the true travel genre of books includes those “that record the experiences of an author touring a place,” I find it worthwhile to...

Emily Goodheart

Sustainable Solutions to Preserving the Amazon

The Amazon, home to hundreds of culturally unique Indigenous groups and one-tenth of all known species on Earth, is a vital ecosystem where the...

Courtney Nachlas

Creating Patagonia – How an American Couple Saved the National Parks

Patagonia is known for its stunning lakes, breathtaking glaciers and adorable guanacos, but few individuals know the history behind Patagonia’s national...

Emily Goodheart

What Makes EcoCamp Patagonia One of the Greatest Ecolodges in the World

While exploring the Peaks, Lakes and Glaciers of Patagonia, the highlight for many Nat Hab travelers is an eye-opening stay at an ecolodge dedicated to...

Emily Goodheart

Sustainable Farm Contributes to Galapagos Giant Tortoise Conservation

Roberto Plaza is the owner of Montemar, a sustainable farm on Santa Cruz Island dedicated to Galapagos giant tortoise conservation. In 2010, Roberto and his...

Courtney Nachlas

Why Exploring Borneo Changed My Life

When I’m not assisting Natural Habitat Adventures in making our company the most sustainable, epic travel company on the planet, I am also a student pursuing...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Plastics and PCBs: Ocean Pollutants Causing Big Problems

More than eight million tons of plastic debris end up in our oceans every year. Present in nearly every oceanic layer, plastic garbage today accounts for...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

New "Ghost Forests” Are a Sign of Climate Change

Now, at the end of August, you may think that it’s about two months too early to talk about “ghost forests.” But, in fact, they have nothing to do with...

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