Nature & Wildlife Stories

Natural Habitat Adventures Announces Northern Lights Encounter Exclusively for Women

The first-ever departure will focus on the Arctic through a female lens via outdoor adventures, Indigenous storytelling and learning about powerful women...

Emily Goodheart

Do Polar Bears Have White Fur?

The Arctic is home to a wide array of winter wildlife. The hides of Arctic foxes and hares blend into glittering frost as snowy owls swoop overhead, feathers...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Elk Use Changing Environmental Signs to Time Migrations

On a recent Natural Habitat Adventures fall trip to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, my guide talked about a common question he gets from visitors...

Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Wood Duck

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a wood duck photo from Ontario, Canada....

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Embrace “Untouristed” Travel with Natural Habitat Adventures’ NEW 2020 Trips

Find a secret side of the world’s top tourism spots with these lower-key, nature-focused expeditions It’s official: the 2020 traveler wants more nature and...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

See Three of the World’s Most Beautiful Forests on Natural Habitat Adventures Tours

Searching for “fall color” is a favorite pastime here in the Midwest where I live. And that’s right up my alley, as I love trees. That’s why in autumn, I...

Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Stuffed

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a chipmunk hoarding nuts in Canada....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Footsteps of Large Animals Fill Landscapes with Life

When you weigh anywhere from 1,000 to 14,000 pounds, you tend to leave huge, deep footprints wherever you walk. But more than just evidence of your passing...

Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Hey There!

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a heron reflection image from Florida....

Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Friends or Foe

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a photo of giraffes in Namibia....

Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Cuddly Lion Cub

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a photo of a lion cub in Zimbabwe....

Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Lazy Day

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a photo of a lion resting in a tree in...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Norway Island Proposes Going Time-Free

There are places in the world and experiences in life that make you forget about time. For me, one of those spots is in Yellowstone National Park, and many of...

Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Fishing Lesson

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week, we chose a brown bear sow with four cubs in the...

Jennie Lay

Greenland: Keeping it Cool

Last summer, encounters with the Greenland ice sheet made me cry. Twice. In August, I traveled to East Greenland—the remote part of the frozen expanse that...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Zealand Grants Mountains, Parks and Rivers Personhood

When it comes to the world's waters, I’m more of a river person than a lake person. Rivers always seem to me to be on an urgent mission; they go places. They...

Steve Selden

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Mother and Child

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a brown bear and cub in Alaska....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

National Parks Are Warming Faster Than the Rest of the U.S.

National parks are some of our favorite wild places, set aside for all of us to enjoy and for wildlife to find some yet remaining, far-too-scarce natural...

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