Travel Tip: Unplug during your vacation – literally
Posted in Travel tips on Oct 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Before leaving your house, turn off all electric devices and unplug any power strips to save energy while you’re on vacation.
Posted in Travel tips on Oct 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Before leaving your house, turn off all electric devices and unplug any power strips to save energy while you’re on vacation.
Posted in Featured tours, WWF news on Oct 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Based on a tremendous response to our spring expedition to India, which quickly sold out, we’re delighted to add a second departure of our extraordinary Wildlife of India journey in the fall of 2010.
Recognizing the Year of the Tiger, our journey features wildlife safaris in three of India’s most important preserves. In addition to the [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Snorkeling on Oct 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Naturalist Rafa Robles traveled to Corcovado National Park during a Costa Rica and Panama expedition in 2009. Here’s what he wrote about this biologically diverse preserve in Costa Rica:
“The morning found us going ashore for some excursions at our morning destination: ‘Caletas Beach,’ near by the Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula. Several nature walks were [...]
Posted in Photography, Q-and-A on Oct 26th, 2009 No Comments »
The fourth in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Ron Magill
You come upon a scenic vista on the flat expanse of the Maasai Mara in Kenya. You have the shot composed in your mind, the wildlife is positioned ideally and the photo seems perfect. Perfect, that is, except for the [...]
Posted in Q-and-A, Snorkeling on Oct 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Bobbie Martin, a Program Manager for Zegrahm Expeditions, WWF’s tour operator for our Rain Forests and Reefs expedition, shares her thoughts on the voyage, which she accompanied in 2009.
What was the highlight of the expedition?
Panama! I am completely taken with this country. From the beautiful beaches of Escudo de Veraguas, and its endemic humming bird, [...]
Posted in WWF news on Oct 23rd, 2009 4 Comments »
More than 550 protected areas around the globe are designated as World Biosphere Reserves. The designation comes from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – better known as UNESCO – and recognizes protected areas that demonstrate a balanced relationship between man and nature.
Here are our picks for the 10 top UNESCO World Biosphere [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Oct 21st, 2009 No Comments »
© Kevin Schafer / WWF-Canon
Naturalist Dr. Mark Brazil traveled to the Pribilof Islands, where we’ll stop on our Northern Ring of Fire expedition. Here’s what he wrote about these islands, which are located off the coast of Alaska:
“The Pribilof Islands were discovered in 1786 by the Russian explorer Gerassim Pribilof. There he successfully located what [...]
Posted in Snorkeling on Oct 19th, 2009 3 Comments »
Gina DeFerrari is a Senior Policy Advisor for WWF.
Gentle giants. That’s what pops into my head each time I think about being in the water, swimming alongside a whale sharks. The first time I did it – two summers ago – it was the experience of a lifetime: Swimming six feet away from one of [...]
Posted in Travel tips on Oct 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Stick the “Do not Disturb” on your door or call housekeeping and tell them you won’t need their services during your stay. This will help prevent the hotel from wasting cleaning products and electricity by vacuuming.
Posted in WWF news on Oct 16th, 2009 No Comments »
WWF considers East Africa one of its priority places for protection and works with governments, community leaders and other conservation groups on a variety of projects in Tanzania and its neighboring countries. For more than 45 years WWF has addressed the problems facing East Africa by working to establish new national parks, empower communities to [...]