Snow leopards occupy a range that spans the high mountains of 12 countries across Asia, where the hostile weather and rugged terrain conspire to snuff out any sign of life. Few animals and fewer humans can survive in this liminal space. Yet, for millennia, this big cat species has managed...

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  • November 22, 2023

Charles Darwin’s first trip to the Galapagos Islands caused ecologists to start wondering why some places have so many species and others have so few. ©Longjourneys/Shutterstock.com Ever since the HMS Beagle arrived in the Galapagos Islands with a young Charles Darwin aboard—who was soon to meet a fateful family of...

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  • November 21, 2023

By Christina Armstrong, WWF’s Development Officer, Regional Philanthropy, East Taylor Swift’s chart-topping song Karma off her Midnights album was on repeat in my head in Brazil’s Pantanal while on Natural Habitat’s Jaguars & Wildlife expedition in July 2023. Yes, the song is a current, popular release, and I love Taylor...

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  • November 16, 2023

It’s estimated that as many as 60 million bison roamed the grasslands and Great Plains of North America during the 19th century. “This is the most magnificent mammal on our continent. Its story is so complicated and so interesting and moves into every aspect of almost every era of our...

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  • November 14, 2023

In July 2019, Natural Habitat Adventures pulled off the ultimate travel experience: the World’s First Zero Waste Adventure, a week-long excursion through Yellowstone National Park that diverted 99% of all on-trip waste from the landfill through recycling, composting, reusing, reducing and refusing. Basically, all the waste that they produced fit snugly inside...

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  • November 12, 2023

A Feather in Your Cap The year is 1886, and you’ve just moved from the verdant countryside to the urban sprawl of the big city. Billowing smokestacks have replaced your morning view of the misty mountains, steel monoliths stand in for ancient deciduous trees and the screeching sound of trains...

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  • November 10, 2023

Jaguar sightings are way up in Brazil, and our brand-new short film gives you a look into their wild world, which you can be part of when you travel to the Pantanal.  Naturalist guide Cassiano “Zapa” Zaniboni rarely saw jaguars when he first began leading wildlife trips through the Pantanal wetlands in Brazil...

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  • November 10, 2023