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My Knucklehead Sons and Their Computers | Ben’s Musings

Even the head of the world’s premiere nature travel company struggles to get his kids — and himself — off the screen and into the woods.

Wendy Redal

Americans Concur: National Parks Beat Theme Parks for a Family Vacation!

Move over, Disney World: From liberal Democrats to Tea Party Republicans, Americans are united when it comes to valuing nature and our national parks, a new...

Lisa Poppleton

Joseph Rock and China’s “Hotspot of Diversity”

The website of Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University includes a section entitled South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity. This appellation...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Dirty Adventure Travel

Antibacterial soaps, alcohol wipes and bleach in our everyday cleaning products have made us focused on eliminating all the germs that we possibly can from...

Wendy Redal

What’s Behind Our New Logo?

Our logo has changed! You may have noticed that our familiar sea lion has been replaced by a stylized letter “N” set against a sphere that represents our...

Lisa Poppleton

A New Refuge for the World’s Rarest Cat

Only 30-35 Amur leopards remain in the wild. Through establishment of a new national park in the Russian Far East, The Land of the Leopard, the World...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Change of Name: Should “Mount McKinley” Become “Denali”?

Nature surrounds us with an amazing variety of animals, insects, birds, plants and topographic features. To refer to and distinguish the entities in this...

Lisa Poppleton

WWF Nepal Launches Conservation Drones

On June 12, 2012, World Wildlife Fund Nepal successfully tested two drones designed to monitor animals and keep a lookout for poachers in Chitwan National...

breanna.draxler

Nature Close to Home: How Does Your City Rate?

One of the great joys of a post-graduation summer is the freedom to travel. Unfortunately my summer does not include backpacking through wild and ancient...

Wendy Redal

Got Your Daily Dose of Green?

I’m not talking about a spirulina smoothie, though that can be good for you, too. Nope, it’s actually “Vitamin N” that’s the focus – “N” for “nature.” It’s...

Wendy Redal

We Have a Geo Quiz Winner!

Michael Ferrara wins the Explorers’ Corner “Where in the World?” trivia quiz!

Wendy Redal

Where in the World?? Test Your Geo-Savvy & Win an Natural Habitat Expeditions T-Shirt!

Been to the Back of Beyond? Tackled the Ultima Thule? If you've traveled with Natural Habitat Expeditions, you might have! Because our whole mission is to...

Lisa Poppleton

WWF Provides Life Insurance for Snow Leopards

It is a conflict as old as the hills: the predation of domestic livestock by a wild animal and subsequent eradication of the predator by the deprived herder. ...

breanna.draxler

A Week of National Parks

by Breanna Draxler Pull out your hiking boots and put on your backpack. It's National Parks Week! From April 22 to 29, you can visit any national park in the...

Wendy Redal

All-White Orca Spotted off Russia’s East Coast

Dubbed "Iceberg" by researchers, an unusual full-grown all-white male orca has been sighted by scientists in the Commander Islands off Kamchatka in the...

Ben Bressler

I’m Angry at Uganda | Ben’s Musings

Is it ethical to travel to Uganda? NHA Founder & Director Ben Bressler reflects on the quandary of promoting tourism to countries with oppressive policies.

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Art of Adventure: Cartographers and Paleoartists

In 1719, when cartographer John Senex was drawing a map of the English empire in America, there was still a lot that was unknown. The little information about...

Wendy Redal

James Cameron Reaches Bottom of the Ocean, Deepest Solo Dive Ever

National Geographic Explorer and Filmmaker James Cameron makes a triumphant return from the bottom of the Challenger Deep, nearly seven miles below the ocean’s surface.

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