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The New Mini Frogs of Madagascar

More than 350 types of frogs live in Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. The nation stretches across 226,917...

Emily Goodheart

Nat Hab Philanthropy: Whale Disentanglement in Mexico

As a part of our initiative to consistently raise the bar on conservation, Natural Habitat Adventures supports philanthropy efforts around the world. In 2018,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Cooking Stoves: Curbing Disease and Cutting Climate Change

Around the world, nearly 3 billion people cook their meals using open fires or simple stoves fueled by biomass (animal dung, crop waste or wood), coal or...

Emily Goodheart

Mountain Gorilla Numbers on the Rise

Good news for mountain gorillas—these great apes are growing in numbers, thanks in dual part to incredible conservation efforts on behalf of our partner World...

Hannah Wagner

9 Nat Hab destinations from NYT’s 52 places to visit in 2020

Every year, the New York Times names 52 places as top destinations to visit. This year, nine Nat Hab destinations made the list. Some destinations are making...

Emily Goodheart

Nat Hab’s 2020 Sustainability Goals

Nat Hab is known for continually raising the bar on conservation, and one way we do so is through our Green Team initiatives. The Green Team is a group of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Put Your Fears on Ice, and Travel to the Cold Places

A small ice rink, created by flooding a flat piece of ground in front of the elementary school that was just two blocks from my home when I was a child, never...

Emily Goodheart

A World on Fire: Battling Blazes in Borneo’s Rainforests

Forest fires hit home particularly hard in 2019, as people in every corner of the Earth watched the world burn. Abnormal Arctic fires occurred in Alaska,...

Natural Habitat Adventures

2019 Green Resolution Reflections

At the beginning of 2019, several members of Nat Hab's Green Team came up with green New Year's resolutions to lower their environmental impact at home and/or...

Natural Habitat Adventures

An Absence of Ethics: Wildlife-Killing Contests in Your Backyard

Wildlife-killing contests are legal in all US states, except California (2014), Vermont (2018), and parts of New Mexico (2019). These great and...

Court Whelan, Ph.D.

My Biggest Concern for the Future of Life on Earth

Court Whelan, Director of Sustainability and Conservation Travel at Natural Habitat Adventures, recently sent out an insightful office-wide email, and we...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Natural Habitat Adventures to Offset Travelers’ Lives for an Entire Year

Natural Habitat Adventures is raising the bar on conservation yet again, offsetting a year’s worth of carbon output for anyone who joins one of the 2020 trips...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

For Your Gifting: My Top 10 Nature-and-Travel Authors

While some might say that the true travel genre of books includes those “that record the experiences of an author touring a place,” I find it worthwhile to...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

On Thanksgiving 2019, Counting Bounty in Butterflies

In recent years, reports on monarch butterfly populations have been confusing: just two years ago, we were hearing that the monarchs were teetering on the...

Emily Goodheart

Sustainable Solutions to Preserving the Amazon

The Amazon, home to hundreds of culturally unique Indigenous groups and one-tenth of all known species on Earth, is a vital ecosystem where the...

Courtney Nachlas

Creating Patagonia – How an American Couple Saved the National Parks

Patagonia is known for its stunning lakes, breathtaking glaciers and adorable guanacos, but few individuals know the history behind Patagonia’s national...

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...

Emily Goodheart

Serengeti Calling

Driving across the plains of the Serengeti, every sense becomes sharpened: eyes alert as you scan the horizon, inhaling the mingling scents of lemon bush and...