Posted in Special offers on Jun 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Just a few more days remain to get $1,000 off select 2009 polar bear adventures in Churchill, Canada, with WWF’s travel partner, Natural Habitat Adventures. The offer expires June 30, 2009.
Tour highlights:
See the world’s greatest concentration of polar bears, just outside Churchill, Manitoba.
Experience the frozen wilderness on Hudson Bay from the comfort of warm tundra [...]
Posted in Q-and-A on Jun 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Photo: © Marsea Nelson/WWF
WWF’s Marsea Nelson accompanied a recent Amazon Voyage in the heart of Peru. She spoke with WWF Travel about the experience:
What was your favorite animal sighting?
My favorite sightings were scarlet macaws and toucans. Seeing those brightly colored birds flying in the forest canopy was surreal. I don’t consider myself a birder, but I [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Excerpted from the WWF 2008 Annual Report article “Spare the Forest, Slow the Speed of Climate Change” by Christine Pendzich.
Many of the world’s endangered species depend on forests for survival, as do 60 million indigenous people. Forests provide us with food, medicine, timber and other wood products. They purify the air we breathe, preserve our [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jun 11th, 2009 No Comments »
(c) South African Tourism
When we visit Kruger National Park on our Southern Africa tour, we’ll have the opportunity to look for black rhinos cooling themselves in mud, munching on vegetation or perhaps dozing for an afternoon nap. That wasn’t always the case. After years of being decimated by poaching and habitat loss, the black rhinos [...]
Posted in Photography, Snorkeling on Jun 11th, 2009 No Comments »
“During our cruise through the sparsely uninhabited Mergui Archipelago, we almost always had the reefs to ourselves, sometimes passing fishing boats en route to the next snorkeling adventure. Several times we had observed the activities of the Moken people from a distance.
“These nomadic people, also referred to as sea gypsies, spend most of their lives [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jun 4th, 2009 No Comments »
QUINTANA ROO, México, June 4, 2009 – WWF, along with the Fundación Carlos Slim and the Mexican government, today launched an initiative that aims to establish Mexico as a global model for conservation by protecting its rich natural heritage and promoting sustainable development within six priority regions that collectively represent 30 percent of the country.
The [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jun 4th, 2009 No Comments »
WWF goes to Africa in the June 2009 issue of the WWF Travel E-newsletter! Learn how long WWF has made significant strides in conservation on the continent and discover where you can travel throughout Africa on a WWF tour.
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