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The Great Gray Whale in Me

Whenever I write about a specific nature or travel topic, I try to think about the extent to which my experience with it has shaped my own life. In the case...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change Is Changing What We Wear and How It’s Made

Your bedroom closet is about to get a makeover, and it won’t be because you’ve knocked out walls or installed new shelving. And that coat closet in your...

Nick Grossman

Nat Hab Builds a New Trail for the Colorado Community

Supporting local communities and caring for the environment is part of our DNA at Natural Habitat Adventures. As "The Nature People," our staff is committed...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Happy Halloween: Watch Bats Show Off a “Drive to Drink”

Bats and Halloween have been connected for a long time. That could be due to the work of author Bram Stoker, who in his 1897 novel Dracula wrote about a human...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Listen to the Howls of Coyotes, the “Song Dogs”

The coyote is often described as the most vocal of North America’s mammals. While there’s a lot of overlap in the sounds that coyotes, dogs and other canid...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Attitudes Toward Wildlife: the Right Kind of Caring?

American attitudes toward wild animals are growing more positive, according to a new study published just last month in the international journal Biological...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: What’s Warming the Earth—Explained

“July 2016 was the 379th consecutive month with temperatures at least nominally above the 20th-century average,” says the NOAA National Centers for...

WWF

Photo Essay: Conservation Inspiration in the Galapagos

At the end of June I had the amazing opportunity to travel with Natural Habitat Adventures to the Galápagos Islands. As you might imagine, it was the trip of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Protecting the Woolly Mammoth to Save Today’s Elephants

The woolly mammoth—an animal that went extinct 4,000 years ago—is currently being considered for legal protection under conservation trade rules. “How that...

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Rare Sights in Madagascar

Last year, I joined a group of Nat Hab travelers on a fourteen-day Madagascar safari beginning on the island’s central plateau. In Zombitse-Vohibasia National...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Silencing Science to Benefit Tourism

Earlier this year, the United Nations (UN), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Union of Concerned...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Finding the Words to Define “Wilderness”

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines wilderness as “a wild and natural area in which few people live.” It’s a simple explanation that succeeds in giving you...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Matter of One Meadow: Yosemite’s New Addition

Yosemite National Park is growing. Here, now, in 2016, that’s a statement I never thought I would be able to make. But last week, on September 7, the National...

iSafari

The Secrets Behind Rwanda’s Conservation Comeback

Rwanda, a landlocked country in central Africa, is perhaps best known for its devastating history of war and genocide. Environmentally, the war had...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Peril to Our Public Lands: Privatization

This week, on Thursday, August 25, the National Park Service will celebrate its centennial. This year has been filled with campaigns and events to commemorate...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Bell That “Speaks” for Those That Are Extinct

Bells have served as communication devices since ancient times. Throughout history, various cultures have reshaped and remodeled them to express different...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Memorial to Loss: the Mass Extinction Monitoring Observatory

We’re currently living in the midst of what scientists call the sixth mass extinction, the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. But the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Mining vs. Monument: Which Will We Choose for the Grand Canyon?

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of the planet’s Seven Natural Wonders. More than a mile deep, the canyon runs for 277 river miles, which are protected as...