Conservation Stories

Green New Year’s Resolutions for 2019 from Nat Hab’s Green Team

Our whole team here at Natural Habitat Adventures is deeply committed to sustainability. About a third of the employees at our Colorado headquarters are...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Year’s Day 2019: What Outdoor Place Misses You?

My father never had the “urge for going,” as songwriter-singer Joni Mitchell calls it—the desire to travel. I place the blame for that fact squarely on the...

Courtney Nachlas

A Sunny Future for Nat Hab’s Adoptee: Wawa the Sun Bear

Walking through the dense forests of Borneo, you may see a long, pink tongue hanging from the treetops. This unusually large tongue, resembling a pulled piece...

Courtney Nachlas

Nat Hab Supports Women of Buhoma, Uganda

Gorilla trekkers in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park may have felt the ground vibrate the day Ride 4 A Woman received word that Natural Habitat Adventures...

WWF

Celebrate 2018 Conservation Wins in these Five Places

2019 is on the horizon, and with the new year comes new challenges facing the planet. But with 2018 ending, we can look back on the events of the year and...

WWF

High Finance

Green is good, and Bhutan is planning to stay that way—forever. The carbon-neutral kingdom’s constitution already mandates 60-percent forest cover on its...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Signing Pledges to Be Better Tourists

While travel has the potential to positively impact the places visited—infusing money into local economies, supporting local artisans and conservation...

WWF

Homeland Security for Jaguars

A new era of cross-border cooperation is primed to save Earth’s largest tropical wetland, home to the world’s densest concentration of jaguars. Assuming...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Giving Tuesday: Saving 30 Percent of Earth by 2030

Some scientists, such as American biologist, naturalist, theorist and author E. O. Wilson, say that a majority of wild species will go extinct if humans don’t...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

We’re Losing Wilderness. And It’s A Loss to Science.

Today, it’s not only animal and plant species that we’re losing at an alarming rate. We’re losing wilderness; everywhere, all over the world. In fact,...

WWF

Elephants on Track

A sophisticated 22-pound GPS collar may be the most valuable bling on the African continent. Seven-ton elephants are now donning advanced satellite tracking...

Emily Goodheart

Nat Hab & Malagasy NGO Aid the Aye-aye

Deep in the rainforest, in the cover of darkness, the lucky traveler may come across the luminous, piercing eyes of the Aye-aye high in the canopy. Encounters...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Nat Hab & WWF Announce the World’s First Zero Waste Adventure

The average American produces 4.4 pounds of trash per day, and this consumer behavior pattern typically continues while travelers are on vacation throughout...

WWF

An Unbearable Mine

Gold and copper may hold lucrative prospects for some investors, but mining doesn’t pay out for Alaska’s Bristol Bay. The proposed open pit ...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Nat Hab Eliminates Plastic Straws Around the World

In January 2018, Natural Habitat Adventures embarked on a new sustainability initiative to eliminate plastic straws from all of our nature journeys in order...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

“The Lorax”: Prophetic Warning or Poor Forest Management?

“Way back in the days when the grass was still green and the pond was still wet and the clouds were still clean … ." So starts the tale the “Once-ler” tells...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Our Best Public Land Defenders Have Feathers, Fins or Fur

Saving natural and wild areas from development and for the use of people like you and me is usually thought to be thanks to endeavors such as national park...

Nick Grossman

Help Protect Alaska’s Bears from the Pebble Mine!

It's exactly the kind of wild natural scenery you envision when you picture "Alaska"—snow-capped peaks towering above a placid creek that gently winds its way...

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