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Lions Are Now Protected Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, but Will It Help Conserve Them in Africa?

As of January 22, 2016, lions will be protected under the Endangered Species Act, which is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Our...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Human-Wildlife Conflict and Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

I heard about another act of wildlife poaching this morning. Only this time it wasn’t African elephants or Indian tigers or Indonesian rhinos. It was in the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

New WILDLABS.NET: Where Technology and Conservation Meet

It’s easy to find recent examples of how technology has helped wildlife conservation. New electronic tools for detecting and preventing animal and plant...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Cod: Save the Species or Preserve East Coast Economies?

Warming ocean temperatures are diminishing the number of polar bears, causing a loss of Arctic sea ice and breaking up the East Antarctica ice sheet. While...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Climate Change Link to the Syrian War

I think Britain’s Prince Charles may be on to something. A longtime environmentalist, the heir to the British throne stated on November 23, 2015—just a week...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Want to Improve Your Health and Increase Your Creativity? Travel More.

Thanksgiving kicks off not only an intense retail sales season but a busy travel period. News headlines about the numbers of us that take to the road, air or...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Applauding Paris: Climate Change Conference 2015 Will Go On

Before the terrorist attacks that left more than 125 people dead and hundreds wounded in Paris on Friday, November 13, 2015, the city was set to host the 21st...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

REI Closed on Black Friday: Altruism or Mere Marketing Ploy?

In recent decades, the day after Thanksgiving—known as “Black Friday”—has become the biggest shopping day of the year. Although no one seems to be able to say...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

The Most Sustainable—and Beautiful—Destination you’ve Never Heard Of: Montenegro

If destinations were judged by their diversity of natural beauty, then Montenegro—one of the newest officially independent countries in the world—would...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

As Earth’s Superpredators, Can We Change How We Use Wildlife?

Would you mind living next door to a top predator? It’s a question I’ve asked you before. It seems that when it comes to bears, lions or wolves, we humans, as...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Increasing Bad Behavior around Wildlife: Are More Regulations Needed?

Witnessing any of nature’s great spectacles—such as the wildebeest migration of Africa, the wintering grounds of millions of monarch butterflies in Mexico or...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

South Korean Forest Is Cut Down for the Olympics: Is Restoration Possible?

Most of us see the benefits of the world’s Olympic Games: they are some of the very few times nations come together to showcase their most beautiful...

Emily Deemer

Watch Nat Hab Featured on NBC's Today Show!

If you happened to be watching NBC's TODAY Show this morning, you may have seen a familiar face – Nat Hab's own Don Martinson, Director of Travel Industry...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Would You Give Up Your Fleece Jacket to Save Our Lakes, Oceans and Rivers?

You’ve cut down on the number of plastic water bottles you buy. You make sure to load your groceries into reusable fabric totes, forgoing the plastic bags the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Is There a New State Trend to Ban Citizen Science?

Citizen science has become an important tool for scientific research. Now, as funds for federal agencies and state natural resources departments around the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Wolves Return to California, but for How Long?

After almost a century, wolves have come home to California. On August 20, 2015, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced that it had...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Nat Hab and WWF's 2016 Catalog of the World’s Greatest Nature Journeys is on press!

Last week Nat Hab's Creative Director Mark Hickey flew to Vancouver, British Columbia to monitor the printing of the latest and greatest Catalog of World’s...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Environmental Activism: Arctic Drilling and Cecil, the Lion

On July 25, 2015, the MSV Fennica, a Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker which was carrying oil-drilling equipment to the Arctic, arrived in Portland, Oregon, for...

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