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Video: Watch as a Pelican in Africa Learns to Fly Again

It can be hard to be alone, hurt and abandoned by your own kind. How are you supposed to learn what you need to know in order to survive? Luckily, for one...

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How Yellowstone Got its Groove Back

When you hear the word safari, your mind often wanders to the savannas of Africa, the jungles of central and South America, or the Galapagos Islands. These...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: The Penguin Paths of New Zealand

Wildlife overpasses save the lives of hundreds of animals—such as deer, elk and pronghorn—every year. But if an overpass isn’t available and you’re a creature...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

There is Life in the Ice, and It’s Got a Message about Climate Change

Scientists have long considered polar ice to be an extreme environment; a sterile place within which nothing can survive. But new evidence shows that there...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Audio Tale: Wolf Encounter in Glacier Bay National Park

One summer morning, while camping on an island far off the beaten path in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, naturalist Richard Nelson and a friend set off...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Esteeming Elephants: September 22 Is National Elephant Appreciation Day

More than 1,500 “national” days have been declared, according to the National Day Calendar. For example, January 2 is National Cream Puff Day. March 4 is...

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Balancing with the Bears of Katmai

Three commercial flights, a float plane, a two-hundred-ton marine vessel, and a raft; followed by a trek through swamps, rocky shorelines, and dense brush....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: The Tiny House Trend, Hummingbird-Style

The tiny house movement—which advocates living simply in small homes—may be a current trend for humans, but hummingbirds have been experts at the practice for...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

More Animals and More Biodiversity Mean More CO2 Storing

Forests are important in our warming world. As we burn fossil fuels—such as coal, gas and oil—and cut down and burn forests for agricultural fields, the...

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Conservation Inspiration in Belize

After landing in Belize City, which was bustling with travelers coming and going, we took a short flight over a beautiful dense forest as the rich blue ocean...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Largest Migration on Earth Is Vertical

Every night on Earth, a great migration takes place. It’s bigger than the ones of caribou, wildebeest or zebras on land or Arctic terns in the air. But while...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Nat Hab Eliminates Plastic Straws Around the World

In January 2018, Natural Habitat Adventures embarked on a new sustainability initiative to eliminate plastic straws from all of our nature journeys in order...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Will You Miss the Animals You Never Knew?

Because of ongoing and potential loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from climate change, polar bears were listed as a threatened species in the United...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

How Do You Define “Nature”? Probably with a Story.

Ask any avid nature traveler how he or she first began to make a lifelong attachment to the outdoors, the natural world or a particular species of wildlife,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Life in the Cold—Photographing Arctic Animals

Watch as one wildlife photographer confronts the cold across hundreds of miles to create captivating stills and video of Arctic wildlife!

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Videos: Summer Nights with In-Sync Fireflies

Fireflies (also known as “lightning bugs” in some parts of the country) were one of the bonuses I got when, several years ago, I traded my house in the city...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Halfway into the Year of the Bird, and Still in Trouble

We’re more than halfway into 2018, the Year of the Bird. When I wrote about this banner year back in December 2017, I wondered if by marking the 100th...

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Our Best Public Land Defenders Have Feathers, Fins or Fur

Saving natural and wild areas from development and for the use of people like you and me is usually thought to be thanks to endeavors such as national park...