Conservation Stories

5 Ways We Make Every Day Earth Day at NHA

Here at Natural Habitat Adventures, taking care of the earth is a way of life. After all, without the earth’s wild natural places, we wouldn’t be in business!...

Lisa Poppleton

Waxing of the Moon Bear

A panda may be the poster child for endangered Chinese animal species and the increasing number of Chinese conservation programs, but the Asiatic black bear...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Yellowstone National Park: Global Warming’s Version of CliffsNotes

With piles of popular articles on the subject and decades of research behind us, you’d think we’d all be experts on global warming by now, right? But it turns...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Ecotourism Builds Connections in Panama: A Visit to Salt Creek

By Christy Lavoie Destination Manager, Natural Habitat Adventures Panama’s Bocas del Toro is a little-known collection of rocky islands in the far northwest...

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Hungry Hungry Hippos in the Wild

by Breanna Draxler Hungry Hungry Hippos was among my favorite board games growing up. My pink plastic hippo fought furiously against those of my sisters to...

Wendy Redal

Can Tourism Help Save the Greenland Ice Sheet?

Will more visitors to Greenland—one of the world’s last remaining tourism frontiers—help raise concern about global warming and its effects on our planet’s diminishing ice?

Wendy Redal

Meet Siku, A Polar Bear Cub With a Mission

Few baby animals are more adorable than a roly-poly white polar bear cub. So it’s no wonder that Siku has stolen the hearts of the world via the Polar Bear...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Bhutan Takes Measures Against Wildlife Poaching

By any measure, Bhutan is a spiritual place, known for how it assesses the quality of life of its citizens, phrased as “gross national happiness (GNH).” The...

Wendy Redal

Grand Canyon Bans Sale of Plastic Water Bottles

Headed to the Grand Canyon? Your Nat Hab steel water bottle will come in handy! We've been providing reusable bottles to our guests for more than a decade,...

Wendy Redal

It’s International Polar Bear Day!

While polar bears have long been at the forefront of concerns over climate change, International Polar Bear Day -- which happens every year on February 27 --...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Earth Hour, March 31, 2012: Give 60 Minutes for the Planet

It’s as simple as turning off your lights for one hour on Saturday, March 31, at 8:30 p.m., your local time. That’s it. It may be the easiest thing you’ll...

Wendy Redal

Scientists Discover ‘Extinct’ Galapagos Tortoise

Wow, this is exciting news from the conservation world! A Galapagos tortoise species thought to be extinct for 150 years has been discovered through DNA...

Wendy Redal

After 87 Years, the Howl of the Wolf Returns to California

A solitary young wolf crossed the state line from Oregon into California’s Siskiyou County a few days ago, marking the first documented sighting of a gray...

Wendy Redal

Coca-Cola, WWF and NHA Join Forces to Protect Polar Bears

Coke drinker? White is the new red – for the holidays, at any rate. If you’ve purchased Coke at your local supermarket recently, you may have discovered that...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Natural Areas of the Future May Be Cities

A baby born in India was recently selected to represent the seven billionth person added to the world. It’s clear that Homo sapiens sapiens, at least for now,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Should Tourist Numbers Be Limited to Protect Pristine Places?

In 1572, a group of Spanish sailors that was fleeing South America was pushed by the South Equatorial Current into the Galapagos Islands. Having no...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Saving the Paper of Priceless Places

Saving paper is probably one of your highest tenets, as someone who considers himself or herself a “conservationist,” as most Natural Habitat Adventures...

Wendy Redal

1,000 Gorillas Expected in the Streets of Denver

Yep, you read that right: Denver, Colorado expects to see more than a thousand shaggy black gorillas running upright through downtown this weekend. Look...

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