Travel Tip: Cool it
Posted in Travel tips on Sep 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Closing your window shade while on an airplane can help reduce the amount of energy needed to cool the plane.
Posted in Travel tips on Sep 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Closing your window shade while on an airplane can help reduce the amount of energy needed to cool the plane.
Posted in Q-and-A on Sep 25th, 2009 No Comments »
WWF’s Ame Hellman accompanied our most recent trip to Borneo. She spoke to WWF Travel about her impressions of one of the wildest places on Earth.
What was your favorite animal sighting?
Seeing the pygmy elephants in the Kinabatangan River. We took a small boat to explore the river, and when we came around a steep bend there they [...]
Posted in WWF news on Sep 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
WWF’s podcast series, “Wild Things,” normally take listeners to rain forests, mountaintops and other far-flung field sites. But in today’s edition, former National Public Radio correspondent John Nielsen unlocks a secure storage room at WWF headquarters in Washington, D.C. That’s where WWF experts in illegal wildlife trafficking keep a suitcase full of confiscated items made [...]
Posted in Photography, Q-and-A on Sep 21st, 2009 No Comments »
The second in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Martin Harvey.
The subjects of Martin Harvey’s photography are as varied as the African continent itself. But the South Africa-based photographer maintains one constant in all of his shots: good composition.
We caught up with the frequent WWF photography contributor in between assignments [...]
Posted in Photography, Snorkeling on Sep 19th, 2009 No Comments »
“The trip leader Ron Leidich took this photograph of me providing scale to the some of the enormous table corals that we encountered at the Mergui Archipelago. This area was off-limits to foreigners until recently and has seen little activity beyond fishing. The many small islands provide shelter and myriad current and wave conditions – [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Wildlife on Sep 17th, 2009 No Comments »
WWF member Barbara Russell of Grayson, Ga., was with WWF this past February during a small-group tour of Tanzania. Russell recently told us about a few of the most exciting animal sightings from her tour:
“It was a windy day, and we were watching about five lions. All of a sudden, we saw a group of [...]
Posted in Photography on Sep 16th, 2009 No Comments »
“It was moving as polar bears do: seemingly aimlessly, languorously, its head and neck occasionally swaying loosely and slowly from side to side.”
Read author Kieran Mulvaney’s account of venturing onto the tundra in Churchill, Manitoba, in Canada, and watch a slideshow of polar bear images in a well-recommended feature in last week’s Washington Post Magazine. [...]
Posted in WWF news on Sep 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Help protect America’s Arctic and Bristol Bay, which produces more than 40 percent of the total annual U.S. fish catch. View this extraordinary video about the threats facing Alaska’s wildlife and wild places. And support WWF’s conservation work by voyaging across seas affecting and affected by the health of Bristol Bay during one or both [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Sep 14th, 2009 No Comments »
The leatherback turtle is the largest marine turtle and one of the largest living reptiles. One of the most migratory of all marine turtle species, it makes both trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific crossings. It is easily distinguished by its carapace, which is leathery rather than hard as in other turtles, and by its long front flippers.
The [...]
Posted in WWF news on Sep 12th, 2009 No Comments »
WWF has enjoyed significant conservation achievements so far in 2009. Below are a few success stories in places you can visit with WWF Travel. They not only highlight exciting results but also emphasizing WWF’s continuous commitment to confront the ongoing challenges faced by our planet.
Conservation in Mexico: This summer, WWF launched an initiative with Fundación [...]