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Botswana to ban wildlife hunting

Botswana is once more taking a leading role among African nations in advancing wildlife conservation as it prepares to end game hunting in favor of safaris...

Wendy Redal

Study: Polar Bear Cubs Drowning Due to Sea Ice Loss

Polar bears in peril have become an icon for the woes of a warming planet. The sea ice they rely upon to hunt seals is freezing later and breaking up earlier,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Space Shuttle Grounded: Will America Lose Its Spirit for Adventure?

“STS-135: the Final Mission.” Sounds like the title of a new Star Trek film, doesn’t it? In reality, it’s the phrase denoting the end of our nation’s space...

Wendy Redal

Meet Rita Kinstler: Nat Hab Adventurer Extraordinaire

Rita Kinstler is 75, though she travels circles around most people a third of her age, including long-term backpacker-types. Rita logs 8 to 10 major trips a...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Take a Hike; Get a Bigger Brain

You momentarily forget where you set down your keys—and you just happen to be over 50 years of age—and you can already hear in your mind the jokes that will...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Adventures of a Photo

Images of natural landscapes have spoken to our souls since the time we started painting them on cave walls. And every few months, it seems, another new...

Wendy Redal

Explore a National Park This Week — For Free!

It's National Park Week in the USA. At a moment when the federal budget is as strained as it's ever been, our parks are nonetheless open free of charge to all...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Adventure: A Sales Opportunity?

I’ll admit it: I’m a vampire-story junkie. Ever since I read Anne Rice’s 1976 novel Interview with a Vampire, I’ve been thirsting—shall we say—for more. So,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Open End of Adventure

When Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, stepped into her twin-engine plane in Miami on June 1, 1937, they were embarking on an adventure of a...

Wendy Redal

Outside Magazine Lauds Natural Habitat’s Antarctica Kayak Expedition

Explorers’ Corner makes Outside magazine’s Top Trips list again! Check out their high praise for our Antarctica Sea Kayaking expedition — adventure travel that lives up to the name.

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Choosing the Sea

Two very old whales are telling us a fascinating story. They are fossils—a male and a pregnant female—that were discovered in Pakistan in 2000 and 2004....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Adventure in the DNA

If you’re a fan of forensic TV programs—such as Bones, Dexter, Fringe or one of the several CSI series—you can’t help but be familiar with the many ways DNA...

Ben Bressler

It’s All One Song | Ben’s Musings

Dear Friend, Someone once commented to Neil Young that his songs all seemed to sound the same. He replied that “It’s all one song.” Well, if Neil Young can...

Ben Bressler

Sometimes I Really Want to Murder My Dogs… But I Won’t | Ben’s Musings

Dear Friend, This subject matter, of course, has nothing to do with nature travel… but, like many of you, I am a dog lover. In Boulder, Colorado, as an...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Top Adventure Job of 2010

Winter, along with the start of a brand-new year, tends to put us in a reflective mood. I guess that’s why the January issues of many magazines are now full...

James Dziezynski

Arctic Autopsy: The Immortal John Torrington

The mummy of John Torrington rests far, far away from the sweltering catacombs of Egyptian pharaohs. But as Ramessess II or Yoda might say, “When 186 years...

Wendy Redal

Can You Hear the Call of the Northern Wild?

While “the Arctic” may conjure up images of sprawling icefields and endless snow-mantled landscapes, polar bears, and fur-clad Inuit bundled against the cold, it’s a whole different scenario in the summertime. Check out these amazing Arctic adventures for your next summer vacation!

Running a Travel Company is Not Like Making Donuts | Ben’s Musings

Dear Friend, I like donuts… heck, pretty much everybody likes donuts. (Especially Canadians!) I like Boston creams and chocolate glazed the most. But I’ll eat...

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