Posted in Wildlife on Oct 14th, 2009 No Comments »
WWF remains the primary international conservation organization protecting pandas in the wild. But it also works to protect a variety of other bears, too — from polar bears moving majestically across the ice along Canada’s Hudson Bay, brown bears gorging on salmon in brisk Alaskan rivers to an unusual small bear that walks pigeon-toed through [...]
Posted in Snorkeling on Oct 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Paulina Grove traveled on 2008’s Rain Forests & Reefs tour to Central America. Here’s what she wrote about Half Moon Caye and Lighthouse Reef off the coast of Belize: Just after breakfast, the divers of our group had an orientation with the dive master, and soon were headed out to one of Belize’s amazing natural [...]
Posted in WWF news on Oct 8th, 2009 No Comments »
WWF Travel is donning a wetsuit, slipping on fins, strapping on a mask and making a splash with its stellar lineup of 2010 snorkeling trips. Nearly a dozen of our trips either include some snorkeling outings or focus exclusively on snorkeling. Find out which majestic, healthy seas we’re exploring next year. Missed a past issue [...]
Posted in Photography, Snorkeling on Oct 6th, 2009 No Comments »
The third in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Thomas & Natalya Baechtold/Raw Perspectives Of the wide-ranging variety of subjects you could photograph on a nature tour, marine life may be the most daunting. In fact, only 10 percent of all travelers take photos underwater on snorkeling and scuba diving [...]
Posted in WWF news on Oct 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
WWF and world conservation leaders are marking a decade of environment results in Africa’s Congo Basin by celebrating the millions of acres of new protected areas have been created, new initiatives on bushmeat and anti-poaching and sustainable forestry. Still, leaders of the Congo Basin countries – including Rwanda – and conservation groups pressed for more [...]
Posted in Q-and-A, Snorkeling on Oct 1st, 2009 No Comments »
How many travel experiences can honestly, truly be defined as “surreal?” Few come close to the extraordinary experience of slipping into a quiet, dark lake with millions of marmalade-colored jellyfish on the rock island of Eil Malk in Palau. Known locally as Ongeim’l Tketau, the isolated saltwater lake was once connected to the ocean by [...]